make xmlrpc requests to a xmlrpc server in native php (and not subshells)
<?
#========================================================================================
# this function makes a xmlrpc request to a server
# author: Cody Kochmann
# example usage:
# echo xmlrpc_request('http://localhost:8000/server.php','say_hello',array('marcin'));
#========================================================================================
function xmlrpc_request($server_url, $service_name, $request_args){
$response = xmlrpc_decode(
file_get_contents(
$server_url,
false,
stream_context_create(
array(
'http' => array(
'method' => "POST",
'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml\nUser-Agent: PHPRPC/1.0\n",
'content' => xmlrpc_encode_request(
$service_name,
$request_args
)
)
)
)
)
);
return (xmlrpc_is_fault($response) ? 'xmlrpc: '.$response['faultString'].' ('.$response['faultCode'].')' : $response);
}