chillerlan/php-qrcode

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library for generating Model 2 QR Codes (versions 1-40, all ECC levels, mixed encoding modes) with extensible output modules for raster and vector formats. It also includes a QR Code reader/decoder based on a PHP port of the ZXing library.

Use cases

• generate qr codes in php
• create qr code as png or svg image
• decode a qr code from an image in php
• generate qr codes with kanji or chinese text
• add qr code generation to a web app
• scan and read qr code content server-side

When to choose

• you need QR generation and/or decoding in a PHP project
• you need flexible output formats (PNG, SVG, JPEG, WebP, etc.)
• you need multi-byte encoding modes like kanji or hanzi
• you want a well-maintained library with PHP 7/8 support

When to avoid

• you need QR generation in a non-PHP stack
• you need other barcode symbologies beyond QR codes
• you need extremely high-throughput real-time decoding

Facets

library · maturity active

image-processing parser sdk web-development image-processing developer-tools php cli qr-code qrcode-generator qrcode-reader svg-output gdimage imagemagick zxing-port barcode web-server

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