Storage Boxx PHP Inventory System (With QR & NFC Scanner)

Last Updated: March 4, 2024

Storage Boxx is an open-source PHP Inventory Management System. With a built-in webcam QR scanner, NFC scanner, passwordless login, and an optional experimental AI assistant.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

DOWNLOAD & INSTALLATION

First, here are the download links for the impatient folks who don’t want to read through everything.

 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • LAMP/WAMP/MAMP/XAMPP
  • Apache Mod Rewrite
  • PHP MYSQL PDO Extension
  • PHP OpenSSL Extension
  • At least PHP 8.0
  • Take note – Webcam, NFC and Passwordless (Web Authentication) support depends on the user’s device and browser.

 

LICENSE & DOWNLOAD

GitHub | GitHub – AI Assistant | SourceForge

Storage Boxx is released under the MIT License. You are free to use it for personal and commercial projects, and modify it as you see fit. On the condition that the software is provided “as-is”. There are no warranties provided and “no strings attached”. Code Boxx and the authors are not liable for any claims, damages, or liabilities.

 

INSTALLATION

  • Download from GitHub/Sourceforge into your HTTP folder.
  • Access http://your-site.com in the browser and walk through the installer.

 

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HOW TO USE

So far so good? Let us now go through a quick crash course on how to use Storage Boxx.

 

QUICKSTART GUIDE

 

EQUIPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS

  • Webcam – If you are using a desktop without a webcam, a simple one only costs about $20~30.
  • USB QR Code scanner – Alternatively, a “dedicated barcode scanner” will cost about $30~40 bucks.
  • NFC tags – 10 pieces of Ntag213 only cost 2-3 bucks. Buy them in bulk, and one piece will only cost a few cents.
  • Fingerprint sensors – These are kind of expensive… But I got lucky with a $25 “Made in China” that works just fine.
  • Label printer – Print your QR codes. There are Bluetooth ones that can pair with smartphones.

 

 

FOR THE DEVELOPERS

This section is for the developers, with a couple of development notes for customization.

 

FAQ

“AJAX error”? Migrating to another domain? NFC “not working”? Check out the FAQ section.

 

BUILT ON CORE BOXX

 

 

AI ASSISTANT

So, you may have noticed that the AI Assistant is “missing” or “not working” out of the box. It’s a long story.

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Python – Yes, Python. Not PHP. Version 3.9 to 3.10 seems to work fine at the time of writing.
  • Microsoft C++ Build Tools
  • CMake
  • Nvidia CUDA Toolkit – If you have an Nvidia graphics card.
  • An Nvidia graphics card with at least 8GB VRAM is highly recommended. You can TRY to run on CPU, but it is painfully slow and practically useless.

 

 

INSTALLATION

  • Copy/unzip this module into your existing Storage Boxx folder.
  • I have tried multiple AI models, codellama-7b-instruct.Q5_K_M.gguf is the only one that produced decent(ish) results – Download that into chatbot/models or choose a better/larger/smarter model on your own.
  • Edit chatbot/a_settings.py, change the model_name to your own.
  • BE WARNED, GIGABYTES WORTH OF DOWNLOAD! – 0-setup.bat (Windows) 0-setup.sh (Linux).

 

LAUNCH

  • Run 1-bot.bat (Windows) 1-bot.sh (Linux/Mac), this will deploy the bot at http://your-site.com:8008.
  • Just access http://your-site.com/ai (must be signed in).

59 thoughts on “Storage Boxx PHP Inventory System (With QR & NFC Scanner)”

  1. xludodx

    Hello, I am getting following error:
    Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: Unable to create the key in C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\webpush\web-token\jwt-core\Util\ECKey.php:98 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\webpush\web-token\jwt-core\Util\ECKey.php(72): Jose\Component\Core\Util\ECKey::createECKeyUsingOpenSSL(‘P-256’) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\webpush\web-token\jwt-key-mgmt\JWKFactory.php(69): Jose\Component\Core\Util\ECKey::createECKey(‘P-256’, Array) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\webpush\minishlink\web-push\src\VAPID.php(165): Jose\Component\KeyManagement\JWKFactory::createECKey(‘P-256’) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\CORE-Install.php(132): Minishlink\WebPush\VAPID::createVapidKeys() #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php(2): require(‘C:\\xampp\\htdocs…’) #5 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\lib\webpush\web-token\jwt-core\Util\ECKey.php on line 98

    Can you advice?
    Thank you
    XludodX

  2. Luigi Visintin

    I’m trying Storage Boxx on my hosted web server. It works, at least to show the config page. But when I hit “GO” button there is an error with:

    Unable to connect to database – SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user ‘Sql635819_2’@’31.11.36.236’ (using password: YES)

    I think there something wrong in building the DB_USER name, but no result from searching the code base. In my opinion the problem depends from the fact that siet files are on a IF that’s different from MySql DB. My web server is: 31.11.36.236 and my mysql db is: 62.149.150.182. I’ve specified the ip for database server in the setup form.
    Please help me.
    Cheers
    Luigi Visintin

  3. mike.miller

    hi is there a demo site for storage boxx project.
    also looking to hire developer for projects thanks mike

  4. Bernd

    We should be able to download a database and the files so we can simply upload them to our server 🙂 and connect. Can you provide a database and the files? 🙂 I have fought for two days, and my server won’t do it.

    1. W.S. Toh

      No idea what you are trying to do here… There’s already an automated installer? All the source files are available for download here and on GitHub? If you want to manually install, see “MANUAL INSTALLATION” above.

      P.S. If you have zero experience, I will highly suggest you start with the raw basics or hire your own web developer. Good luck.

    1. W.S. Toh

      EDIT – Whoever encounters the same problem in the future, it’s either:

      1) MOD_REWRITE is enabled, but AllowOverride is not properly set.
      2) SSL issues. Apache is not serving the pages and/or static assets properly.

      Will try to add more checks, but fingers crossed. PHP has limited or no access to these Apache settings.

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