Need sample XML-RPC client code for PHP5 [closed]

Question

Need a tutorial or some instruction on how to use the XML-RPC library built in to PHP (version PHP Version 5.2.6) for a XML-RPC client. The server is in Python and works.

Google and php.net are failing me.

Update:

Per phpinfo I have xmlrpc-epi v. 0.51 installed. I visited http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/ but the xmlrpc-epi-php examples section on the left showed me sf.net's version of a 404.

Update2:

I'm going to use http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ and hopefully that will work out for me.

Update3:

The code at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ was straightforward and I got working.

Not closing the question. If anyone wants to chime in with ultra-simple solutions, that would be great!

Answer 1

I found this solution in http://code.runnable.com/UnEjkT04_CBwAAB4/how-to-create-a-xmlrpc-server-and-a-xmlrpc-client-for-php

Example for login in webfaction api

// login is the method in the xml-rpc server and username and password
// are the params
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request("login", array('username', 'password'));

$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
'method' => "POST",
'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml\r\nUser-Agent: PHPRPC/1.0\r\n",
'content' => $request
)));

$server = 'https://api.webfaction.com/'; // api url
$file = file_get_contents($server, false, $context);

$response = xmlrpc_decode($file);

print_r($response);

You will see something like:

Array ( [0] => 5d354f42dcc5651fxe6d1a21b74cd [1] => Array ( [username] => yourusername [home] => /home [mail_server] => Mailbox14 [web_server] => Webxxx [id] => 123456 ) )