PHP XML RPC Function DecodeRequest

PHP Version: (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5)

Description

This function decodes xml into native php type.

Usage:

array xmlrpc_decode_request ( string xml, string &method [, string encoding])

This function decodes xml into native PHP type. After getting the response from server, it needs to be converted into PHP native types so that it can be used. This function returns an array which contains array of native type objects.

PHP Code:

<?php

function do_call($host, $port, $request) {

$fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr);

$query = "POST /default/php/server.php HTTP/1.0\nUser_Agent: This is a Dummy Client\nHost: ".$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('dummyserver', 'test1');

$response = do_call($host, $port, $request);

$variable ='test1';

//decode the response inti native PHP type

$decodedresponse = xmlrpc_decode_request($response,$variable);

//print the array

print_r( $decodedresponse);

?>