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CLXXXI. 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 its 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 338. XML-RPC configuration options

NameDefaultChangeableChangelog
xmlrpc_errors"0"PHP_INI_SYSTEMAvailable since PHP 4.1.0.
xmlrpc_error_number"0"PHP_INI_ALLAvailable since PHP 4.1.0.

For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix I, php.ini directives.

Resource Types

This extension defines a XML-RPC server resource returned by xmlrpc_server_create().

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
xmlrpc_is_fault — Determines if an array value represents an XMLRPC fault
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


xmlrpc_decode_request> <xml_set_unparsed_entity_decl_handler
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XML-RPC Functions
handco at gmail dot com
12-Mar-2007 09:37
An alternative to $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA use :

$request = file_get_contents('php://input');
handco at gmail dot com
20-Feb-2007 08:19
Hi,

A little snippet to implement OO XML RPC Server.

File RPCPlugin.php :

class RPCPlugins {
   
    private $plugins;
   
    function __construct ($pathname, $rpcServer) {
        $d = dir($pathname);
        while (($file = $d->read()) !== false) {
            if (ereg('(.*)\.php$', $file, $regs)) {
                include_once ($pathname . '/' . $file);
                $class=$regs[1];
                $this->plugins = new $class($rpcServer);           
            }
        }
    }
   
}

class RPCPlugin {
   
    private $_rpcServer;
   
    function __construct($rpcServer) {
        $this->_rpcServer = $rpcServer;
       
        $methods = get_class_methods($this);
       
        foreach ($methods as $method) {
            if (substr($method, 0,1) != '_') {
                xmlrpc_server_register_method($rpcServer,get_class($this) . "." . $method,array(&$this,$method));
            }
        }
       
    }
   
}

An example of plugin in plugins/Test.php  :

 class Test extends RPCPlugin {
    
    
     function HelloWorld ($method, $params) {
         return "Hello World --->>" . $params[0];
     }
    
 }

Now the real server :

require_once 'RPCPlugin.php';
 
 $rpcServer = xmlrpc_server_create();
 
$plugins = new RPCPlugins(realpath('plugins/'), $rpcServer);
 
 $resp = xmlrpc_server_call_method($rpcServer,$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA,null);
 if ($resp) {
     header ('Content-Type: text/xml');
     echo $resp;
 }
 xmlrpc_server_destroy($rpcServer)

Then you can call ethod by classname.method.
For this sample Test.HelloWorld

Hn'Co
giunta dot gaetano at sea-aeroportimilano dot it
13-Sep-2006 06:40
If you need to use this extension but are stuck on a server where it can not be installed, the php-xmlrpc library found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net includes an emulation layer that aims to be 100% compatible with the API of the native extension (as part of the "extras" package since version 0.2).
This means your code should be able to run unmodified on top of the php-xmlrpc library. Of course performance will be at least an order of magnitude worse...
php dot net et athens musician det net
05-Jul-2006 12:11
The devshed article and tutorial has been moved to the following url as of July 5, 2006

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-XMLRPC-with-PHP/
keithNO dot SPAMthornhill at gmail dot com
17-May-2006 02:16
for others attempting the same thing, here is what a function would look like if you wanted to send a base64 encoded file from a client and then save it onto the server. the other code necessary to call this function via an RPC is available in other comments so i won't repeat it.

parameters:
1 - name of file
2 - base64 encoded data of file

note the use of $file_data->scalar

<?
    function sendFile($method_name, $params, $user_data) {
        $file = "/somedir/" . $params[0];
        $file_data = $params[1];

        $fh = @fopen($file, "wb");
        if ($fh) {
            if (@fwrite($fh, $file_data->scalar)) {
                $msg = "success msg";
            } else {
                $msg = "couldn't write to file";
            }
            fclose($fh);
            return $msg;
        } else {
            return "couldn't open file";
        }
    }
?>
09-Mar-2006 12:47
This XML-RPC Service makes the use XML-RPC very esay.

<?php

/**
* function myfun() returns 
*@return array
*/
function myfunc(){
    return $some_array;
}

$ws = new XML_RPC_Server();
$ws->registerFunction('myfunc');
$ws->run();

?>

http://www.pure-php.de/node/31

It creates also a simple docu.
http://www.pure-php.com/php/service.php?doc
john # curioussymbols com
19-Oct-2005 04:37
I couldn't make the 'xmlrpc_errors' php.ini setting do anything
noticeable (PHP 4.3.11), so I used the following code to report errors
from my XMLRPC server. Hope it's helpful for someone.

<?php
function return_xmlrpc_error($errno,$errstr,$errfile=NULL,$errline=NULL
       ,$errcontext=NULL){
    global $xmlrpc_server;
    if(!$xmlrpc_server)die("Error: $errstr in '$errfile', line '$errline'");

    header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
    print(xmlrpc_encode(array(
        'faultCode'=>$errno
        ,'faultString'=>"Remote XMLRPC Error from
          ".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].": $errstr in at $errfile:$errline"
    )));
    die();
}   
set_error_handler('return_xmlrpc_error');
?>

In my server function, I just trigger_error("message",E_USER_ERROR)]
 if something can't be completed.

Then on the client side,
<?php
        $data =& xmlrpc_decode($response['body']);

        if(xmlrpc_is_fault($data)){
            trigger_error($data['faultString'],E_USER_ERROR);
        }
?>
martin dot rode at programmfabrik dot de
04-Aug-2005 05:28
To connect to a python xmlrpc server I use:

function do_call($host, $port, $request) {
 
    $url = "http://$host:$port/";
    $header[] = "Content-type: text/xml";
    $header[] = "Content-length: ".strlen($request);
   
    $ch = curl_init();  
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
   
    $data = curl_exec($ch);      
    if (curl_errno($ch)) {
        print curl_error($ch);
    } else {
        curl_close($ch);
        return $data;
    }
}

$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('add', array(3, 4));
$response = do_call($host, $port, $request);
astrolox at lawyersonline dot co dot uk
22-Mar-2005 04:20
The PHP XML-RPC project at SourceForge makes life a hell of a lot easier. However, the project uses some function names which are identical to thoses provided by the XML-RPC extention.

If you are on a server with XML-RPC extension compiled in but wish to use the PHP based version then you will have to rename some of the functions.

I notice that sourceforce says there is activity on the project in 2005 but the last release was January 12, 2003.

I recommend that you use this not so friendly PHP extention if available. However this sourceforce project is still a good idea if you don't control which extenions are be available on the server.

http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/
Jerome Delamarche
14-Oct-2004 02:58
The documentation lacks an example that shows how to send a fault in a response. Here is how to do it:

$args = array("faultCode" => $errcode, "faultString" => $errmsg);
$resp = xmlrpc_encode_request(NULL,$args);
//echo $resp;
php at hendrik-krauss dot de
13-Aug-2004 12:38
On "datetime" values:

If you implement an XML-RPC server with these functions and a client calls a method on your server, sending a datetime as parameter (in ISO 8601 format, as specified at http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec), the PHP XML-RPC will pass your registered server method an object as parameter. That object, for example, looks like:
obj->type="datetime"
obj->scalar="20040420T13:32:40"
obj->timestamp=1082460760

If you do xmlrpc_get_type(obj), it will return "datetime", so presumably that function just returns the value of 'type'. 'scalar' seems to be the on-the-wire representation of the datetime (ISO 8601, exactly as received). 'timestamp' appears to be the ISO value in 'scalar' converted into a normal PHP timestamp (i.e. Unix time_t).

Note on 'scalar': Using a MySQL DB, we did something like  "select blah where start_time >= $obj->scalar ;". That actually worked and returned expected results, so MySQL appears to handle that ISO 8601 format correctly.
swunderlin at REMOVE-telemedia dot ch
09-Jun-2004 03:20
pear hs an XML_RPC package, if you can't recompile your php:
http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC
steph at zend dot com
08-Jun-2004 04:04
It took me a while to get a client together without external libraries.  This very basic client/server pair works on my home set-up - hopefully it will save the next xml-rpc virgin some grief.

/* clienttest.php */
<?php
function do_call($host, $port, $request) {
   
    $fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr);
    $query = "POST /home/servertest.php HTTP/1.0\nUser_Agent: My Egg Client\nHost: ".$host."\nContent-Type: text/xml\nContent-Length: ".strlen($request)."\n\n".$request."\n";

    if (!fputs($fp, $query, strlen($query))) {
        $errstr = "Write error";
        return 0;
    }

    $contents = '';
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $contents .= fgets($fp);
    }

    fclose($fp);
    return $contents;
}

$host = 'localhost';
$port = 80;
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('cycle', 'egg');
$response = do_call($host, $port, $request);
/* do something with $response, e.g. print it */
?>

/* servertest.php */
<?php
function lifecycle($method, $params) {
/* $method = 'cycle', $params = (array of) request parameter(s); $data is also passed from xmlrpc_server_call_method, if we had any data to pass */
    switch($params[0]) {
        case 'egg':
            $reply = 'All eggs will be birds one day.';
        break;
        default:
            $reply = 'That must have been an otheregg';
    }
    return $reply;
}

$server = xmlrpc_server_create();

/* register the 'external' name and then the 'internal' name */
xmlrpc_server_register_method($server, "cycle", "lifecycle");

$request = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; // no you don't need 'always on', and no $_POST doesn't work.

/* the parameters here are 'server, xml-string and user data'.  There's supposed to be an optional 'output options' array too, but I can't get it working :( hence header() call */
$response = xmlrpc_server_call_method($server, $request, null);
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print $response;

xmlrpc_server_destroy($server);
?>
mboeren at php dot net
25-Feb-2004 04:34
Just a quick addition to my previous xmlrpc_client class: since you cannot use remote methods containing capital letters or methods from subhandlers (like 'system.listMethods()'), I added a 'call(...)' method to the class.

<?php
    // this method should be copy/pasted in the
    // xmlrpc_client class

    function call($function)
    {
        $return = NULL;
        $argv = func_get_args();
        array_shift($argv); // remove function argument
        $this->__call($function, $argv, &$return);
        return $return;
    }

    // now, you can also do
    $result = $client->call('system.listMethods');
    $sum = client->call('add', '1', '2');
?>
mboeren at php dot net
24-Feb-2004 07:01
I use the following code (requires the overload extension) to make developing clients easier:

<?php
include("utils/utils.php"); // from xmlrpc-epi utils

/*
Usage:
    $client = new xmlrpc_client("http://localhost:7080");
    print $client->echo('x')."\n";
    print $client->add(1, 3)."\n";

*/
class xmlrpc_client
{
    var $url;
    var $urlparts;

    function xmlrpc_client($url)
    {
        $this->url = $url;
        $this->urlparts = parse_url($this->url);
        foreach(array('scheme', 'host', 'user', 'pass', 'path',
                      'query', 'fragment')
                as $part) {
            if (!isset($this->urlparts[$part])) {
                $this->urlparts[$part] = NULL;
                }
            }
    }

    function __call($function, $arguments, &$return)
    {
        $requestprms['host'] = $this->urlparts['host'];
        $requestprms['port'] = $this->urlparts['port'];
        $requestprms['uri'] = $this->urlparts['path'];
        $requestprms['method'] = $function;
        $requestprms['args'] = $arguments;
        $requestprms['debug'] = 0;
        $requestprms['timeout'] = 0;
        $requestprms['user'] = NULL;
        $requestprms['pass'] = NULL;
        $requestprms['secure'] = 0;

        $result = xu_rpc_http_concise($requestprms);
        if (is_array($result) && isset($result['faultCode'])) {
            print('Error in xmlrpc call \''.$function.'\''."\n");
            print('  code   : '.$result['faultCode']."\n");
            print('  message: '.$result['faultString']."\n");
            return false;
            }
        $return = $result;
        return true;
    }

}
overload('xmlrpc_client');

?>
Frank
21-Jan-2004 10:32
here's how to install it on windows (so it actually works):

- php.ini > enable "php_xmlrpc.dll" in extensions.
- php.ini > make sure "extension_dir" is set correctly to find the dll in your php installation dir /extensions.
- copy iconv.dll from your php install dir /dlls to a directory in your path (ex: c:/windows).

if you got some errors while launching apache prior to trying this I suggest you reboot your machine first... sounds weird I know, but remember... you're running Windowz.
Have fun
sjtirtha at gmx dot de
21-Aug-2003 10:23
To install xml-rpc feature on Windows, you need to have "php_xmlrpc.dll" on your "/extensions" Folder.
And you need to enable it on "php.ini".

You need also library from http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net .
to make your code simply.

Look the examples at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/XMLRPCwithPHP/page1.html .
mistcat attyatatat phreaker dootttt net
17-Apr-2003 03:52
Hope this saves somone some frustration:
As of php 4.3.1 and xmlrpc-epi-php-0.51 php would return a content type text/html instead of text/xml in its responses.  this is a bad thing.  Perl's XMLRPC::Lite for instance will not like you if you do this.  Happily the solution is simple:

header("Content-Type: text/xml");

Happy Hunting.

-Nate
daniel(at)lorch.cc
25-Mar-2003 05:21
If you need a tutorial on the XML-RPC-Extension go to devshed:

  http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/XMLRPCwithPHP/page1.html
bmichael at goldparrot dot com
08-Feb-2003 09:52
If anyone is interested in making XMLRPC requests directly from the client, I have been able to get xmlrpc to
work with vcXMLRPC javascript backend.

After about 1 week of scanning the market, I found this solution to be the best on Javascript back end.  It uses the Microsoft.HTTP activeX control for IE, or HTTPRequest Object for Mozilla.

You include vc(Virtual Cowboys) vcXMLRPC.js file into your pages and make the rpc calls from with javascript to create the requests.

It works both ways.

Two Notes:

I have tested it on IE 6.02 and you need to change lines in ProcessRequest :
function to read:

  dom = this.getObject("XMLDOM",http.responseText);

and change the getObject function to use the latest ActiveX Control:

 MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0  (or 4.0)
 MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0  (or 4.0)

The controls are found on MSDN in the Web Services -> XML area.

As another note, you DO NOT NEED the rpcproxy.cgi script to use this.  That is a proxy script to get around JS Security.  You can use PHP to build the proxy.  But, I was able to get the CGI working with GCC compiler on Solaris (change the -KPCI, depend and -x03 optimizer settings in the Makefile )
nospam at phppatterns dot com
06-Dec-2002 05:45
Note that you do need the iconv module installed to use the XML-RPC extension (see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.iconv.php)
hfuecks at pinkgoblin dot com
26-Sep-2002 06:34
You can pass PHP errors with the XML-RPC extension as described here: http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200107/msg00642.html
steve at orangeNOSPAMimagineering dot com
24-Aug-2002 01:32
There's a handy library by Keith Devens (version 2.2.1) at
http://www.keithdevens.com/software/xmlrpc/

Here is a sample client. It remotely calls sample.sumAndDifference
with two parameters (3 and 5).
It returns:

sum => 8
difference => -2

<?php
include ("kd_xmlrpc.php");
// define("XMLRPC_DEBUG", 0);    // Set to 1 for handy debugging

$method = "sample.sumAndDifference";
$params = XMLRPC_prepare(array(3,5));

$site = "xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net";
$location = "/api/sample.php";

list($success, $result) = XMLRPC_request( $site, $location, $method, $params );

// XMLRPC_debug_print();    // uncomment for debugging

foreach ( $result as $key => $value ) {
          echo(" $key => $value \n");
}

?>
hfuecks at pinkgoblin dot com
15-Aug-2002 08:32
This extension does not handle the process of making making XML-RPC client requests via HTTP; it only prepares the XML-RPC request payload.

This differs from many other XML-RPC implementations but offers greater flexibility, allowing SSL connections, authentication headers and XML-RPC via other transports like SMTP.
hfuecks at pinkgoblin dot com
28-Jul-2002 01:33
Anyone interested in PHP-GTK talking to an XML-RPC server:

http://www.pinkgoblin.com/gtk2xmlrpc.php
ivanr at webkreator dot com
21-Jun-2002 11:50
For a really easy way to use this XML-RPC extension take a look at

XML-RPC Class Server (http://www.webkreator.com/php/xcs/)

It automatically creates servers out of PHP classes. Creating clients is almost as easy, especially with the recent addition of the overload extension to PHP (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.overload.php).
nic at uklinux dot NOSPAM dot net
24-Apr-2002 09:05
An alternative XML-RPC implementation is available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com - it's written in PHP so you can use it on servers for which you don't have the luxury of rebuilding PHP on.

nic
cmv at php dot net
07-Jan-2002 05:26
"Latest releases" is a bit redundant, since this extension is bundled into PHP (as of 4.1.0).  You don't need to download anything from sourceforge to make this work.  Just compile PHP with the --with-xmlrpc flag.

The site http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/ is useful, however, for documentation.
ravan_n at hotmail dot com
27-Dec-2001 03:01
Refer to the below link for documentation / latest releases of the package.

http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/main.php?t=php_about
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