PHP XML RPC Function EncodeRequest

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

Description

This function generates XML for a method request for RPC server.

Usage:

string xmlrpc_encode_request ( string method, mixed params [, array output_options])

This function converts request into XML format so that it can be sent to RPC server. All requests to RPC server should be encoded before it can be sent to the server. Let’s look at the example below.

PHP Code:

<?php

//the host URI which will be served as a server

$host = 'localhost';

//the port of the server to be used for communication

$port = 80;

//encode the request into xml format before sending it to server.

$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('dummyserver', 'test1');

print $request;

?>

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<methodCall>

<methodName>dummyserver</methodName>

<params>

<param>

<value>

<string>test1</string>

</value>

</param>

</params>

</methodCall>

The above xml structure shows the structure of xml to be sent to the server.

To know more details on XML-RPC, please find the URL http://www.xmlrpc.com/ and http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/