justinbusschau/php-govtalk

A library for applications which interface with the UK Government Gateway

PHP GovTalk

A library for applications which interface with the UK Government Gateway, _(*1)

, _(*2)

The GovTalk Message Envelope is a standard developed by the United Kingdom government as a means of encapsulating a range of government XML services in a single standard data format., _(*3)

This project was originally forked from Fubra Limited. Only the GovTalk class is preserved in this library. This library can be used whenever you need to build something that interfaces with any of the services that use the Government Gateway (e.g. Companies House, HMRC, etc.)., _(*4)

Installation

The library can be installed via Composer. To install, simply add it to your composer.json file:, _(*5)

{
    "require": {
        "justinbusschau/php-govtalk": "0.*"
    }
}

And run composer to update your dependencies:, _(*6)

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php $ php composer.phar update, _(*7)

Basic usage

This library can be extended and used with any one of the gateways that use the GovTalk Message Envelope and the Document Submission Protocol. The following libraries currently use / extend GovTalk:, _(*8)