note 27981 added to function.xmlrpc-set-type

From: Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:53:26 +0000
Subject: note 27981 added to function.xmlrpc-set-type
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As xmlrpc_set_type returns bool, the above example doesn't do anything useful (with due respect, hfuecks). The problem is that PHP has a string type which is also used to hold binary data and dates. But XML-RPC defines three separate types for strings, binary data, and dates. How do you tell how you want strings encoded? That's where this function comes in. Suppose the XML-RPC method "log.data" took a string, a date, and a binary object. To tell XML-RPC that the date (which is a PHP string) is a really a date and that the binary data (which is also a PHP string) is really binary data, try: $string = "My logging event."; $date = "20030115T12:22:37"; // Must be this format $binary = fread($fp, 128); xmlrpc_set_type(&$date, "datetime"); xmlrpc_set_type(&$binary, "base64"); $xmlrpcReq = xmlrpc_encode_request("log.data", array($string, $date, $binary)); Note the reference passing in the calls to xmlrpc_set_type; that enables the function to change the values from strings into what xmlrpc_encode/_request expects (which are objects that include a bonus field that tells the desired XML-RPC type). -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xmlrpc-set-type.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27981 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27981 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27981

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