XML and PHP

PHP and RPC

A PHP module for RPC has been available since version 4.1.0 of the language (released in December 2001). Created by Dan Libby of Epinions.com, this RPC extension (which goes by the distressingly unpronounceable name of XMLRPC-EPI-PHP) provides standard encoding, decoding, and server administration functions for XML-RPC and SOAP requests and responses.This extension is also available as a standalone C library at the project’s official web site: http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/.

If you’re using a stock PHP binary, it’s quite likely that you’ll need to recompile PHP to add support for this library to your PHP build (detailed instructions for accomplishing this are available in this book’s Appendix A, “Recompiling PHP to Add XML Support”). ...