Last updated: Fri, 05 Sep 2008

xmlrpc_decode

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)

xmlrpc_decode — Decodes XML into native PHP types

Description

mixed xmlrpc_decode ( string $xml [, string $encoding ] )

Warning

This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk.

Parameters

xml: XML response returned by XMLRPC method.
encoding: Input encoding supported by iconv (defaults to "iso-8859-1").

Return Values

Returns either an array, or an integer, or a string, or a boolean according to the response returned by the XMLRPC method.

Examples

See example by xmlrpc_encode_request().


Be careful with encodings, the xmlrpc-decode function is rather strict. For example, the following response parse returns NULL :



<?xml version="1.0"?>

<methodResponse>

   <params>

      <param>

         <value><string>a & b</string></value>

         </param>

      </params>

   </methodResponse>



You should use entities : 

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<methodResponse>

   <params>

      <param>

         <value><string>a &amp; b</string></value>

         </param>

      </params>

   </methodResponse>



If your server does not encode responses properly, you may have to process responses before parse.

hfuecks at pinkgoblin dot com
16-Aug-2002 01:57


Use this with an XML-RPC client to decode a server response into native PHP variables. It will automatically translate the response XML-RPC data types into their PHP equivalents.



This function will return only false is there is any problem with format of the XML it receives.



The HTTP response header will need to be stripped off with something like;



<?php

$xml=(substr($response, strpos($response, "\r\n\r\n")+4));



$phpvars = xmlrpc_decode ($xml);

?>

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