Question

Need a tutorial or some instruction on how to use the XML-RPC library built in to PHP (version PHP Version 5.2.6) for a XML-RPC client. The server is in Python and works.

Google and php.net are failing me.

Update:

Per phpinfo I have xmlrpc-epi v. 0.51 installed. I visited http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/ but the xmlrpc-epi-php examples section on the left showed me sf.net’s version of a 404.

Update2:

I’m going to use http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ and hopefully that will work out for me.

Update3:

The code at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ was straightforward and I got working.

Not closing the question. If anyone wants to chime in with ultra-simple solutions, that would be great!

Answer 1

A very simple xmlrpc client, I use a cURL class, you can get it from: https://github.com/dcai/curl/blob/master/src/dcai/curl.php

class xmlrpc_client {     private $url;     function __construct($url, $autoload=true) {         $this->url = $url;         $this->connection = new curl;         $this->methods = array();         if ($autoload) {             $resp = $this->call('system.listMethods', null);             $this->methods = $resp;         }     }     public function call($method, $params = null) {         $post = xmlrpc_encode_request($method, $params);         return xmlrpc_decode($this->connection->post($this->url, $post));     } } header('Content-Type: text/plain'); $rpc = 'http://10.0.0.10/api.php'; $client = new xmlrpc_client($rpc, true); $resp = $client->call('methodname', array()); print_r($resp);