PHP XML-RPC usage

XML-RPC data types

XML-RPC supports only a limited number of data types. The following are the corresponding relationships to the PHP data types:

Useful Inc.-XML-RPC implementation-PHPXMLRPC

The XML-RPC Toolkit we use is made by Useful, Inc. 's Edd dumbill, download URL http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net, which includes both client and server XML-RPC implementations.

The client and server side are implemented by the Xmlrpc_client class and the Xmlrpc_server class, which are mainly used to receive and send XML-RPC messages. The Xmlrpcval class is used to encode PHP variables as XML-RPC equivalence data types and to pass parameters to a remote method. The reverse process uses the Xmlrpc_decode () function. An XML-RPC message is created using the Xmlrpcmsg class by passing it a parameter table.

The Xmlrpc_client class sends XML-RPC packets created using the Xmlrpcmsg class, and on the server side, the Xmlrpc_server class resolves these received messages as xmlrpcmsg objects. The object is then passed as a separate parameter to the user function. The function must return a Xmlrpcresp object that the Xmlrpc_server class uses to serialize and return to the client. This basic architecture is shown in the following illustration.

Installation and Configuration

In http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net download, unpack, and then place Xmlrpc.inc and xmlrpcs.inc into your include path.

The client program header simply joins the following include statement:
Include (' Xmlrpc.inc ');

Server-side program header to add the following include statement:
Include (' Xmlrpc.inc ');
Include (' Xmlrpcs.inc '); Server-side code

Example