PLANET

PLANET is POSTNET with the tall and short bars exchanged: three tall bars per digit instead of two. The USPS used it to track mail through the network rather than to route it, and retired both formats together.

Type Token

Input

Examples

A tracking number

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$barcode = new \Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Barcode();
$bobj = $barcode->getBarcodeObj(
    type: 'PLANET',
    code: '0123456789',
    width: -3,
    height: -30,
    color: 'black',
    padding: [0, 0, 0, 0],
)->setBackgroundColor('white');

echo $bobj->getInlineSvgCode();

Errors

These payloads raise \Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Exception:

See Also

• tc-lib-barcode : the library overview.
• Rendering Options : size, colour, padding.
• Output Formats : every renderer.
• POSTNET : the routing counterpart.
• Intelligent Mail Barcode : the format that replaced both.
• API reference : the generated class documentation.