While I’ve managed to find lots of PHP XML-RPC information, I’ve
found very little in regard to using PEAR to make an XML-RPC Server.
Here’s a snippet of code to get you started:
// Include the libraries
require_once 'XML/RPC/Server.php';
// This array maps XML-RPC methods to functions.
$map = array('example.getTime' => array('function' => 'gettime'));
/* Creating a new object of this type automatically
* Parsed the XML-RPC request and handles the
* response.
*/
$svr = new XML_RPC_Server($map);
// Bye bye
exit;
/* Our function. Mapped to method example.getTime.
* When called, example.getTime will accept one
* parameter -- the format to provide the date in.
* In all cases, this method merely returns the date.
*/
function gettime($p) {
// Get the first parameter
$format = $p->getParam(0);
// Look to see if it was supplied
if (empty($format)) {
// In case it wasn't, this is our default.
$format = 'Y-m-d h:i:s';
} else {
// Get the value of the parameter.
$format = $format->scalarval();
}
// Build a return value
$retval = date($format,time());
// Return it as a response
return new XML_RPC_Response(new XML_RPC_Value($retval, "string"));
}
I used the long versions of all the functions in order to make
certain that you understand what is going on in each step. Functions
like XML_RPC_decode() make life a lot easier and you may want
to consider playing with them a bit.