Using XML-RPC with PHP - Compiling PHP with XML-RPC Support (
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As of PHP 4.1.0, the XML-RPC extension is included in the source package with
the status of experimental. This extension is simply a copy of the XML-RPC EPI
extension that can be found at
http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/main.php?t=php_aboutThis
extension is by far the best way of implementing XML-RPC in PHP. Being an
extension to PHP and not a class or set of methods as the other solutions are,
it is written in C and is therefore much faster than any of the other
solutions.
The XML-RPC extension is not compiled with PHP by default. In
order to enable it, you will need to download the PHP 4.1.0 or greater source
from
http://www.php.net/downloads.php and
run the configure script including the switch:
--with-xmlrpc
and compile and install as usual.
Doing this will make
available several new XML-RPC functions for use in your PHP scripts.
Now,
the built in XML-RPC functions are certainly not a joy to use, unless all you
want to do is encode PHP variables into XML-RPC requests. The built-in functions
will not make the actual requests themselves. I'll show you how to deal with
this later in the article.
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