An xmlrpcval object may be created using this forms:
<?php
$myVal
=new xmlrpcval($stringVal);
$myVal=new xmlrpcval($scalarVal, "int" | "boolean" | "string" | "double" | "dateTime.iso8601" | "base64");
$myVal=new xmlrpcval($arrayVal, "array" | "struct");
?>
The first creates a xmlrpc string value, the second creates a scalar value indicating value and type, the
third one may be used to create complex objects by grouping other xmlrpc vals in structures such as arrays
or structures as following:
third one may be used to create complex objects by grouping other xmlrpc vals in structures such as arrays
or structures as following:
<?php
$myArray
=new xmlrpcval(array(
new xmlrpcval("Tom"), new xmlrpcval("Dick"),
new xmlrpcval("Harry")), "array");
$myStruct=new xmlrpcval(array(
"name" => new xmlrpcval("Tom"),
"age" => new xmlrpcval(34, "int"),
"geek" => new xmlrpcval(1, "boolean")), "struct");
?>
The response object is of type xmlrpcresp and is obtained calling the method “send” from a client object,
in a server you can create an xmlrpc resp using:
in a server you can create an xmlrpc resp using:
$resp=new xmlrpcresp($xmlrpcval);
In the client you use the method:
$xmlrpcVal=$resp->value();
To get the xmlrpcval from the response. Then you can use this method to get a PHP variable representing the response:
$scalarVal=$val->scalarval();
There’re two useful functions to deal with complex types:
These functions reside in xmlrpc.inc.
$arr=xmlrpc_decode($xmlrpc_val);
Returns a PHP array stuffed with the values found in the xmlrpcval $xmlrpc_val, translated into native PHP types.
$xmlrpc_val=xmlrpc_encode($phpval);
Returns an xmlrpcval populated with the PHP values in $phpval. Works recursively on arrays and structs. Note that there’s no support for non-base types like base-64 values or date-times.
Writing clients is a easy task in PHP, you can build web-based clients for XML_RPC services using PHP.
