note 27981 modified in function.xmlrpc-set-type by didou

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). --was-- 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