PHP XML RPC Function GetType

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

Description

This function returns the xmlrpc type for php value.

Usage:

string xmlrpc_get_type ( mixed value)

This function returns the xmlrpc type of the PHP value. Please look into http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec for more details on xmlrpc specifications. In my example I have sent a structure as a response and return value is also a structure.

PHP Code for as a client:

<?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;

$obj->type="datetime";

$obj->scalar="20040420T13:32:40";

$obj->timestamp=1082460760;

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

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

//Get the xmlrpc type

$xmlrpctype = xmlrpc_get_type($response);

//print the xml rpc type

print_r( $xmlrpctype);

?>

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:41:17 GMT

Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) PHP/5.0.3

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.3

Content-Length: 637

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/xml

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

<methodResponse>

<params>

 <param>

  <value>

  <array>

   <data>

   <value>

   <struct>

     <member>

     <name>type</name>

     <value>

     <string>datetime</string>

     </value>

     </member>

     <member>

     <name>scalar</name>

     <value>

     <string>20040420T13:32:40</string>

     </value>

     </member>

     <member>

     <name>timestamp</name>

     <value>

     <int>1082460760</int>

     </value>

     </member>

   </struct>

   </value>

   </data>

   </array>

   </value>

   </param>

</params>

</methodResponse>

Output

String.

So it indicates if the response is a php structure type then it would be a string.