RFID Readers and writers supporting php

I am working with one of my client who has a library management system in PHP.

Now he is planning to implement RFID solution for inventory tracking and location detection purposes.

Can anyone suggest a RFID reader and tags which can be operated through PHP.

I looked at a similar project a few years ago (never went any further tough) and seem to recall that some scanners come with a stand alone Windows/Linux app that emulates the keboard - i.e. you put the cursor in the text box and when the trigger on the scanner is pressed a text string is pasted there for you and an ‘Enter’ key press simulated.

Will the RFID scanners be connected to the server?

I would guess they will be attached to the client terminals - i.e. you will need to find a way to interface them to the browser so that the scan output can be pasted as a number/string into a HTML form input field…

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I know PHP, but I don’t use it make my breakfast. :wink:

Yes the scanners would be connected to Client machines.

They are providing sdks in all languages other than php - So i believe i need to make a mechanism of reading values using those languages and then displaying them in the text field of my php page but i am quite unsure how this should be done.