HL7 parsing in PHP
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Hi all,
I'm looking into options for parsing HL7 messages via PHP. I'm aware of the Net_HL7 package on PEAR but to be perfectly honest, I don't think that I want to base my code around a seemingly 'abandoned' package and even if I did, I just don't think that my brain suits the functions 'correctly'. Maybe if I had more of an HL7 background it would make a bit more sense, I don't know.
Anyway: I'm guessing that 95% of the time, I'm going to be parsing and reading data from messages. The other 5%, I'll be creating and/or sending messages.
I don't necessarily need to do any form of validation on the messages themselves, I just need to pull/push data.
I definitely need support for 'non-XML' HL7 v2.x, but naturally XML-based v2 and v3 would be a bonus.
So does anyone have any suggestions as to other libraries that I might use? I'm looking for pure PHP solutions as I want to have minimal requirements on the server that aren't "copy this directory here".
Thanks!
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