XML-RPC functions

Introduction

These functions can be used to write XML-RPC servers and clients. You can find more information about XML-RPC at » http://www.xmlrpc.com/, and more documentation on this extension and it's functions at » http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/.

Warning:

This extension is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this extension -- including the names of its functions and anything else documented about this extension -- may change without notice in a future release of PHP. Use this extension at your own risk.

Requirements

No external libraries are needed to build this extension.

Installation

XML-RPC support in PHP is not enabled by default. You will need to use the --with-xmlrpc[=DIR] configuration option when compiling PHP to enable XML-RPC support. This extension is bundled into PHP as of 4.1.0.

Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Table 183. XML-RPC configuration options

NameDefaultChangeable
xmlrpc_errors"0"PHP_INI_SYSTEM
xmlrpc_error_number"0"PHP_INI_ALL

For further details and definition of the PHP_INI_* constants see ini_set().

Resource Types

This extension has no resource types defined.

Predefined Constants

This extension has no constants defined.

Table of Contents

xmlrpc_decode_request - Decodes XML into native PHP types
xmlrpc_decode - Decodes XML into native PHP types
xmlrpc_encode_request - Generates XML for a method request
xmlrpc_encode - Generates XML for a PHP value
xmlrpc_get_type - Gets xmlrpc type for a PHP value. Especially useful for base64 and datetime strings
xmlrpc_parse_method_descriptions - Decodes XML into a list of method descriptions
xmlrpc_server_add_introspection_data - Adds introspection documentation
xmlrpc_server_call_method - Parses XML requests and call methods
xmlrpc_server_create - Creates an xmlrpc server
xmlrpc_server_destroy - Destroys server resources
xmlrpc_server_register_introspection_callback - Register a PHP function to generate documentation
xmlrpc_server_register_method - Register a PHP function to resource method matching method_name
xmlrpc_set_type - Sets xmlrpc type, base64 or datetime, for a PHP string value

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