UPC-E

Six digits instead of twelve, for packages too small to carry UPC-A. The compression works by suppressing runs of zeros in the manufacturer and product fields, so only UPC-A codes with the right zero pattern have a UPC-E form at all.

A code with no UPC-E form is rejected at encode time, before it reaches a label.

Type Token

Input

Examples

A compressed product code

<?php

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

$barcode = new \Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Barcode();
$bobj = $barcode->getBarcodeObj(
    type: 'UPCE',
    code: '725277',
    width: -3,
    height: -30,
    color: 'black',
    padding: [0, 0, 0, 0],
)->setBackgroundColor('white');

echo $bobj->getInlineSvgCode();

With a two-digit add-on

$bobj = $barcode->getBarcodeObj(
    type: 'UPCE',
    code: '725277+12',
    width: -3,
    height: -30,
    color: 'black',
    padding: [0, 0, 0, 0],
)->setBackgroundColor('white');

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.
• UPC-A : the twelve-digit form it compresses.
• EAN-8 : the other small-package symbol.
• API reference : the generated class documentation.