Chapter 24. Zend_XmlRpc

Table of Contents

24.1. Introduction
24.2. Zend_XmlRpc_Client
24.2.1. Introduction
24.2.2. Using parameters
24.2.3. Type hinting of parameters
24.2.4. Getting the response
24.3. Zend_XmlRpc_Server
24.3.1. Introduction
24.3.2. XML-RPC Server Basic Usage
24.3.3. XML-RPC Server Structure
24.3.4. Conventions
24.3.5. Utilizing Namespaces
24.3.6. Custom Request Objects
24.3.7. Custom Responses
24.3.8. Handling Exceptions via Faults
24.3.9. Caching Server Definitions Between Requests
24.3.10. Usage Examples

24.1. Introduction

XML-RPC is a "...remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned." (XML-RPC Home Page).

The Zend Framework implementation for XML-RPC clients (and in the future for XML-RPC servers) makes the usage of XML-RPC even simpler, by trying to make XML-RPC usage as similar as possible to the PHP5 SOAP web service extension.