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  66. <li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">Quickstart</a><ul>
  67. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#import-the-library">Import the library</a></li>
  68. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#create-your-first-qr-code">Create your first QR Code</a><ul>
  69. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li>
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  72. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#reading-qr-codes">Reading QR Codes</a></li>
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  77. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#configuration-via-qroptions">Configuration via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QROptions</span></code></a><ul>
  78. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#supply-an-iterable-of-options">Supply an <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">iterable</span></code> of options</a></li>
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  83. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#qrcode-methods"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QRCode</span></code> methods</a><ul>
  84. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#save-to-file">Save to file</a></li>
  85. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#render-a-qrmatrix-instance">Render a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QRMatrix</span></code> instance</a></li>
  86. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#mixed-mode">Mixed mode</a></li>
  87. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html#qr-code-reader">QR Code reader</a></li>
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  93. <p class="caption" role="heading"><span class="caption-text">Built-In Output Modules</span></p>
  94. <ul>
  95. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QREps.html">QREps</a><ul>
  96. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QREps.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
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  102. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRFpdf.html">QRFpdf</a><ul>
  103. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRFpdf.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
  104. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRFpdf.html#options-that-have-no-effect">Options that have no effect</a></li>
  105. </ul>
  106. </li>
  107. </ul>
  108. </li>
  109. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRGdImage.html">QRGdImage</a><ul>
  110. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRGdImage.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
  111. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRGdImage.html#options-that-have-no-effect">Options that have no effect</a></li>
  112. </ul>
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  116. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRImagick.html">QRImagick</a><ul>
  117. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRImagick.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
  118. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRImagick.html#options-that-have-no-effect">Options that have no effect</a></li>
  119. </ul>
  120. </li>
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  123. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRMarkupHTML.html">QRMarkupHTML</a><ul>
  124. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRMarkupHTML.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
  125. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRMarkupHTML.html#options-that-have-no-effect">Options that have no effect</a></li>
  126. </ul>
  127. </li>
  128. </ul>
  129. </li>
  130. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRMarkupSVG.html">QRMarkupSVG</a><ul>
  131. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRMarkupSVG.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
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  137. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRString.html">QRString</a><ul>
  138. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRString.html#options-that-affect-this-module">Options that affect this module</a><ul>
  139. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Built-In-Output-QRString.html#options-that-have-no-effect">Options that have no effect</a></li>
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  145. <p class="caption" role="heading"><span class="caption-text">Public API</span></p>
  146. <ul>
  147. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRCode.html">QRCode</a><ul>
  148. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRCode.html#methods">Methods</a><ul>
  149. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRCode.html#deprecated-methods">Deprecated methods</a></li>
  150. </ul>
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  152. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRCode.html#constants">Constants</a><ul>
  153. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRCode.html#deprecated-constants">Deprecated constants</a></li>
  154. </ul>
  155. </li>
  156. </ul>
  157. </li>
  158. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROptions.html">QROptions</a><ul>
  159. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROptions.html#methods">Methods</a></li>
  160. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROptions.html#properties">Properties</a></li>
  161. </ul>
  162. </li>
  163. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROutputInterface.html">QROutputInterface</a><ul>
  164. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROutputInterface.html#methods">Methods</a></li>
  165. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QROutputInterface.html#constants">Constants</a></li>
  166. </ul>
  167. </li>
  168. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRMatrix.html">QRMatrix</a><ul>
  169. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRMatrix.html#methods">Methods</a><ul>
  170. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRMatrix.html#deprecated-methods">Deprecated methods</a></li>
  171. </ul>
  172. </li>
  173. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-QRMatrix.html#constants">Constants</a></li>
  174. </ul>
  175. </li>
  176. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="API-DecoderResult.html">DecoderResult</a><ul>
  177. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-DecoderResult.html#methods">Methods</a></li>
  178. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="API-DecoderResult.html#magic-properties-read-only">Magic Properties (read-only)</a></li>
  179. </ul>
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  181. </ul>
  182. <p class="caption" role="heading"><span class="caption-text">Appendix</span></p>
  183. <ul>
  184. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html">Terminology</a><ul>
  185. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#qr-code">QR Code</a></li>
  186. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#matrix">Matrix</a><ul>
  187. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#module">Module</a></li>
  188. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#version">Version</a></li>
  189. </ul>
  190. </li>
  191. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#function-patterns">Function Patterns</a><ul>
  192. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#finder-pattern">Finder Pattern</a></li>
  193. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#alignment-pattern">Alignment Pattern</a></li>
  194. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#timing-pattern">Timing Pattern</a></li>
  195. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#separators">Separators</a></li>
  196. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#quiet-zone">Quiet Zone</a></li>
  197. </ul>
  198. </li>
  199. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#encoding-region">Encoding Region</a><ul>
  200. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#data">Data</a></li>
  201. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#version-information">Version Information</a></li>
  202. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#format-information">Format Information</a></li>
  203. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#darkmodule">Darkmodule</a></li>
  204. </ul>
  205. </li>
  206. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#mode">Mode</a><ul>
  207. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#segment">Segment</a></li>
  208. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#extended-channel-interpretation-eci">Extended Channel Interpretation (ECI)</a></li>
  209. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#mixed-mode">Mixed Mode</a></li>
  210. </ul>
  211. </li>
  212. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#ecc-error-correction-coding">ECC (Error Correction Coding)</a><ul>
  213. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#ecc-level">ECC Level</a></li>
  214. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#maximum-data-capacity">Maximum data capacity</a></li>
  215. </ul>
  216. </li>
  217. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#data-masking">Data masking</a><ul>
  218. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#evaluation">Evaluation</a></li>
  219. <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#mask-pattern">Mask pattern</a></li>
  220. </ul>
  221. </li>
  222. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-Terminology.html#reflectance">Reflectance</a></li>
  223. </ul>
  224. </li>
  225. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html">Popular content and URI schemes</a><ul>
  226. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#url-https">URL <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">https</span></code></a></li>
  227. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#e-mail-mailto">E-Mail <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mailto</span></code></a></li>
  228. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#phone-numbers-tel">Phone numbers <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tel</span></code></a></li>
  229. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#geo-coordinates-geo">Geo Coordinates <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">geo</span></code></a></li>
  230. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#mobile-authenticators-otpauth">Mobile Authenticators <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">otpauth</span></code></a></li>
  231. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#wireless-network-configuration">Wireless Network configuration</a></li>
  232. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#contact-information-vcard">Contact information: vCard</a></li>
  233. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#calendar-events-vcalendar-and-icalendar">Calendar Events: vCalendar and iCalendar</a></li>
  234. <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-URI-Content.html#see-also">See also</a></li>
  235. </ul>
  236. </li>
  237. <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="Appendix-License.html">License</a></li>
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  260. <section id="quickstart">
  261. <h1>Quickstart<a class="headerlink" href="#quickstart" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
  262. <section id="import-the-library">
  263. <h2>Import the library<a class="headerlink" href="#import-the-library" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
  264. <p>Import the main class(es) and include the autoloader (if necessary):</p>
  265. <div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">chillerlan\QRCode\</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nx">QRCode</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">QROptions</span><span class="p">};</span>
  266. <span class="k">require_once</span> <span class="no">__DIR__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="s1">&#39;/../vendor/autoload.php&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
  267. </pre></div>
  268. </div>
  269. </section>
  270. <section id="create-your-first-qr-code">
  271. <h2>Create your first QR Code<a class="headerlink" href="#create-your-first-qr-code" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
  272. <p>We want to encode this URI for a mobile authenticator into a QRcode image:</p>
  273. <div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;otpauth://totp/test?secret=B3JX4VCVJDVNXNZ5&amp;issuer=chillerlan.net&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
  274. <span class="nv">$qrcode</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">QRCode</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
  275. <span class="nb">printf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;&lt;img src=&quot;%s&quot; alt=&quot;QR Code&quot; /&gt;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$qrcode</span><span class="p">);</span>
  276. </pre></div>
  277. </div>
  278. <section id="configuration">
  279. <h3>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
  280. <p>Configuration using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QROptions</span></code>:</p>
  281. <div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$options</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">QROptions</span><span class="p">;</span>
  282. <span class="nv">$options</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">version</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">;</span>
  283. <span class="nv">$options</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">imageBase64</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// output raw image instead of base64 data URI</span>
  284. <span class="nb">header</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;Content-type: image/svg+xml&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// the image type is SVG by default</span>
  285. <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">QRCode</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$options</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
  286. </pre></div>
  287. </div>
  288. <p>See <a class="reference internal" href="Usage-Advanced-usage.html"><span class="std std-doc">Advanced usage</span></a> for a more in-depth usage guide.
  289. Also, have a look <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/chillerlan/php-qrcode/tree/main/examples">in the examples folder</a> for some more usage examples.</p>
  290. </section>
  291. </section>
  292. <section id="reading-qr-codes">
  293. <h2>Reading QR Codes<a class="headerlink" href="#reading-qr-codes" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
  294. <p>Using the built-in QR Code reader is pretty straight-forward:</p>
  295. <div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">try</span><span class="p">{</span>
  296. <span class="nv">$result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">QRCode</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">readFromFile</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;path/to/file.png&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// -&gt; DecoderResult</span>
  297. <span class="p">}</span>
  298. <span class="k">catch</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">Throwable</span> <span class="nv">$exception</span><span class="p">){</span>
  299. <span class="c1">// handle exception...</span>
  300. <span class="c1">// throw ...</span>
  301. <span class="p">}</span>
  302. <span class="c1">// you can now use the result instance...</span>
  303. <span class="nv">$content</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$result</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">data</span><span class="p">;</span>
  304. <span class="c1">// ...or simply cast the result instance to string to get the content</span>
  305. <span class="nv">$content</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">string</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="nv">$result</span><span class="p">;</span>
  306. </pre></div>
  307. </div>
  308. <p>It’s generally a good idea to wrap the reading in a try/catch block to handle any errors that may occur in the process.</p>
  309. </section>
  310. <section id="notes">
  311. <h2>Notes<a class="headerlink" href="#notes" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
  312. <p>The QR encoder, especially the subroutines for mask pattern testing, can cause high CPU load on increased matrix size.
  313. You can avoid a part of this load by choosing a fast output module, like SVG.
  314. Oh hey and don’t forget to sanitize any user input!</p>
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