Re: EDI with PHP?

"Jon Farmer" <jonfarmer@enta.net> wrote in message news:003f01c1345c$53e385e0$70604ac3@enta.net... > The company I work for is starting to lose contracts because they are not > capable of EDI. As I seem to be the only person in the company who has heard > of EDI and knows what it stands for I am assumed to be an expert :-) Ain't it always the way :-) > Anyway, I would like to suggest that instead of EDI we use XML and use PHP > both as a parser and a creater of the EDI like transactions. I would propose > they are sent over the net and probably PGP encrypted or signed. I have done > some minor work with PHP and XML, mainly credit card authorisation, but > wondered how suited it would be to this kind of app? http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-68-85-1552_STO55904,00.h tml http://www.xml.com/search/index.ncsp?sp-q=EDI PHP should be quite capable of handling this, but you will end up creating a lot of the business logic from scratch. If your company already uses integrated management software like SAP, it may have EDI capabilities built in.