HL7 Parsing

[anagen]

I have a need to parse a HL7 data file and map data to a Database table
DB integration is probably easy, just wanted to understand how parsing would work using PHP

I am new to PHP, have setup the PHP environment on Ubuntu, can someone guide me how
do I leverage this Package / Library please ?

Thanks in advance

Nagen

[senaranya]

• Install composer unless already installed
• Create a directory for your project, along with a directory src inside it
• Inside the project directory, run the command: composer require aranyasen/hl7 (this installs the library in vendor/ directory)
• Add a basic script, say src/hl7_demo.php:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace src;

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aranyasen\HL7\Message;

$msg = new Message("MSH|^~\\&|1|\rPV1|1|O|^AAAA1^^^BB|", null, true); // Create Message object from a HL7 string
echo $msg->toString(true); // Print it to make sure the object was created successfully

• use php src/hl7_demo.php to run it

Note: This is a bare-minimum script to demonstrate how to use this library. For details on functionalities, check out the documentation