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XML-RPC for PHP version 4.11.0 - 2024/9/7

  • new: added new Client option Client::OPT_EXTRA_HEADERS, useful to set custom HTTP headers

  • improved: compatibility with not-yet-released PHP version 8.4

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.10.4 - 2024/06/27

  • fixed: Response returned from the library in case of HttpException did not have set the correct status_code member var

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.10.3 - 2024/04/24

  • fixed: avoid emitting warnings when parsing some classes of malformed XML (issue #116)

  • fixed: the library will now return a Fault Response object with error code 2 whenever parsing some xml responses which do not conform to the specification, namely those having both fault and params elements inside methodResponse

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.10.2 - 2024/04/14

  • fixed: allow Server subclasses to use their own Parser to determine the Request's charset

  • fixed: the Server would not swallow and log php warnings generated from end user's method handler functions unless debug mode was set to 2 or higher. It now does that always.

  • fixed: the library will now return a Fault Response object whenever parsing some xml responses which do not conform to the specification, namely the for following cases:

    • a methodResponse element without either fault or params
    • a methodResponse element with a params child which does not have a single param

  • improved: test on PHP 8.3 as part of CI

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.10.1 - 2023/02/22

  • fixed: class autoloading got broken in rel 4.10.0 for users of the legacy API (issue #111)

  • fixed: let the Server create Response objects whose class can be overridden by subclasses (this is required by the json-rpc server now that the xml_header method has been moved to the Request object)

  • fixed: let the Client create Requests whose class can be overridden by subclasses, within the _try_multicall method, which is called from multicall

  • fixed: declare the library not to be compatible with old versions of 'phpxmlrpc/extras' and 'phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc'

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.10.0 - 2023/02/11

  • changed: the minimum php version required has been increased to 5.4

  • changed: dropped support for parsing cookie headers which follow the obsolete Cookie2 specification

  • new: it is now possible to make the library generate warning messages whenever a deprecated feature is used, such as calling deprecated methods, using deprecated method parameters, or reading/writing deprecated object properties. This is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::xmlrpc_silence_deprecations = false. Note that the deprecation warnings will be by default added to the php error log, and not be displayed on screen. If you prefer them to be handled in some other way, you should take over the Logger, as described below here

  • new: allow to specify other charsets than the canonical three (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII), when mbstring is available, both for outgoing and incoming data (issue #42).

    For outgoing data, this can be set in $client->request_charset_encoding and $server->response_charset_encoding. The library will then transcode the data fed to it by the application into the desired charset when serializing it for transmission.

    For incoming data, this can be set using PhpXmlRpc::$internal_encoding. The library will then transcode the data received from 3rd parties into the desired charset when handling it back to the application.

    An example of using this feature has been added to demo file windowscharset.php

  • new: allow the library to pass to the application DateTime objects instead of string for all received dateTime.iso8601 xml-rpc values. This includes both client-side, for data within the $response->value(), and server-side, for data passed to xml-rpc method handlers, and works for both 'xmlrpcvals' and 'phpvals' modes. In order to enable this, you should set PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_return_datetimes = true.

    NB: since the xml-rpc spec mandates that no Timezone is used on the wire for dateTime values, the DateTime objects created by the library will be set to the default php timezone, set using the 'date.timezone' ini setting.

    NB: if the received strings are not parseable as dates, NULL will be returned instead of an object, but that can be avoided by setting PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_reject_invalid_values = true, see below.

  • improved: be more strict in the Response constructor and in Request::addParam: both of those will now generate an error message in the log if passed unexpected values

  • improved: be more strict in the data accepted as valid for dateTime xml-rpc values. Clearly invalid dates such as a month '13', day '32' or hour '25' will cause an error message to be logged or the value to be rejected, depending on configuration

  • improved: be more strict in the data accepted as valid for 'float' and 'int' xml-rpc values. If you need to allow different formats for numbers, you can set a custom value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_double_format and PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_int_format

  • new: allow the library to be stricter in parsing the received xml: by setting PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_reject_invalid_values = true, incoming xml which has data not conforming to the expected format for value elements of type date, int, float, double, base64 and methodname will be rejected instead of passed on to the application. The same will apply for elements of type struct-member which miss either the name or the value

  • new: it is now possible to tell the library to allow non-standard formats for received datetime value, such as f.e. datetimes with a timezone specifier, by setting a custom value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_datetime_format (issue #46).

  • new: it is now possible to tell the library to allow non-standard formats for received int and float values, as well as for methdoname elements. See the api docs for PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc static variables.

  • fixed: when a server is configured with its default value of 'xmlrpcvals' for $functions_parameters_type, and a method handler in the dispatch was defined with 'parameters_type' = 'phpvals', the handler would be passed a Request object instead of plain php values.

  • fixed: made sure all debug output goes through the logger at response parsing time (there was one printf call left)

  • fixed: Client::send will now return an error Response when it is requested to use an auth method that it does not support, instead of logging an error message and continuing with another auth schema. The returned error code is 20

  • fixed: when calling Client::multicall() with $client->return_type = 'xml', the code would be always falling back to non-multicall requests

  • fixed: support calling Client::setSSLVersion() for the case of not using curl transport

  • fixed: receiving integers which use the 'EX:I8' xml tag

  • fixed: setting/retrieving the php value from a Value object using array notation would fail if the object was created using i4 then accessed using int, eg: $v = new Value(1, 'i4'); $v[$v->scalrtyp()] = 2;

  • fixed: setting values to deprecated Response property cookies would trigger a PHP notice, ex: $response->_cookies['name'] = ['value' => 'something']; (introduced in 4.6.0)

  • fixed: made deprecated method Value::structEach work again with php 8.0 and later

  • new: method PhpXmlRpc::useInteropFaults() can be used to make the library change the error codes it generates to match the spec described at https://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/specs/rfc.fault_codes.php

  • new: both Request and Response acquired methods getPayload and getContentType

  • new: method Response::valueType()

  • new: method Client::getUrl()

  • new: method Server::setDispatchMap()

  • new: added methods getOption, setOption, setOptions and getOptions to both Client and Server, meant to replace direct access to all public properties as well as the $timeout argument in calls to Client::send and Client::multicall

  • new: by using Client::setOption('extracurlopts'), it is possible to pass in protocol=specific options for when using the Socket http transport. The value has to be an array with key being 'socket' or 'ssl', and the value an array (see https://www.php.net/manual/en/context.socket.php and https://www.php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php)

  • new: it is now possible to inject a custom logger into helper classes Charset, Http, XMLParser, inching a step closer to supporting DIC patterns (issue #78)

  • new: method PhpXmlRpc::setLogger(), to simplify injecting a custom logger into all classes of the library in one step

  • improved: the Client will automatically try to use cURL for requests using Digest/NTLM auth, unless told explicitly told not to do so via option 'use_curl'

  • improved: the Client is more verbose in logging issues when trying to compress a Request for sending

  • improved: the Logger class now sports methods adhering to Psr\Log\LoggerInterface

  • improved: limit the size of incoming data which will be used in error responses and logged error messages, making it slightly harder to carry out DOS attacks against the library

  • new: passing value -1 to $client->setDebug will avoid storing the full http response data in the returned Response object when executing call. This could be useful in reducing memory usage for big responses

  • new: when calling Wrapper::wrapXmlrpcMethod and wrapXmlrpcServer, it is possible to pass 'throw_on_fault' as option to argument $extraOptions. This will make the generated function throw on http errors and xml-rpc faults instead of returning a Response object

  • new: when calling Wrapper::wrapXmlrpcMethod, wrapXmlrpcServer, wrapPhpFunction and wrapPhpClass it is possible to pass 'encode_nulls' as option to argument $extraOptions. This will make the generated code emit a '' xml-rpc element for php null values, instead of emitting an empty-string xml-rpc element

  • new: methods Wrapper::holdObject() and Wrapper::getheldObject(), allowing flexibility in storing object instances for code-generation scenarios involving Wrapper::wrapPhpClass and Wrapper::wrapPhpFunction

  • improved: all Value methods now follow snakeCase convention

  • improved: all the Exceptions thrown by the library are now \PhpXmlRpc\Exception or subclasses thereof

  • improved: all the Client's setSomething() methods now return the client object, allowing for usage of fluent style calling. The same applies to Request::setDebug

  • improved: when calling Client::multicall(), the returned Response objects did not have any data in their httpResponse

  • new: method Helper\Date::iso8601Encode now accepts a DateTime input beside a timestamp

  • new: in the dispatch map, it is now possible to set different exception handling modes for each exposed xml-rpc method

  • new: method Server::add_to_map is deprecated in favour of addToMap. It has also acquired new parameters: $parametersType = false, $exceptionHandling = false

  • improved: the XMLParser accepts more options in its constructor (see phpdocs for details)

  • improved: removed usage of extension_loaded in favour of function_exists when checking for mbstring. This allows for mbstring functions to be polyfilled

  • improved: the code generated by the various code-generating methods of Wrapper are formatted better, and include more phpdoc blocks too

  • improved: made the Wrapper and Client classes easy to subclass for use by the PhpJsonRpc library

  • improved: added the library version number to the debugger title line

  • improved: the debugger will now sport the "load method synopsis" button when interacting with json-rpc servers

  • improved: added an example Symfony Client and Server to the demo files (using Symfony 6 / PHP 8 syntax)

  • improved: added to the taskfile command an option to automatically set up the git hooks for development

  • improved: made sure the test container and gha test runners have at least one locale with comma as decimal separator

  • BC notes:

    NB Given the considerable amount of API changes in this release, a set of tables listing every change has been added in doc/api_changes_v4.10.md; a textual description follows.

    Besides what can be inferred from the changes listed above, for library users:

    • the data passed to the application is not encoded anymore in UTF-8 when setting PhpXmlRpc::$internal_encoding to a custom character set and the mbstring extension is enabled. It will be encoded instead in the specified character set. We expect this to affect few users, as setting PhpXmlRpc::$internal_encoding to a custom character set did not make a lot of sense beforehand
    • the regular expression used to check if incoming int and double values are valid has been tightened. That can be tweaked via use of PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_double_format and PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_int_format
    • the regular expression used to check if incoming datetime values are valid has been tightened to reject clearly invalid dates. It has been widened as well, to allow leap seconds. That can be tweaked via use of PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_datetime_format
    • a regular expression has been introduced to check incoming 'methodname' elements. In the default configuration it will trigger error messages in the logs, but not reject the calls. It can be tweaked via use of PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_methodname_format
    • an error message will now be generated if, in incoming data, a STRUCT element has no NAME
    • parameters $timeout and $method are now considered deprecated in Client::send() and Client::multicall()
    • Client properties $errno and $errstring are now deprecated
    • direct access to all properties of Client and Server is now deprecated and should be replaced by calls to setOption / getOption. The same applies to the following "setter" methods of the Client: setSSLVerifyPeer, setSSLVerifyHost, setSSLVersion, setRequestCompression, setCurlOptions, setUseCurl, setUserAgent
    • direct access to Wrapper::$objHolder is now deprecated
    • the code generated by the debugger when using "Generate stub for method call" will throw on errors instead of returning a Response object

    For library extenders:

    • if you subclassed the Server class, and dynamically inject/manipulate the dispatch map, be aware that the server will now validate the methodname from the received request as soon as possible during the xml parsing phase, via a new method methodNameCallback. You might want to reimplement it and f.e. make it a NOOP to avoid such validation
    • new method Response::xml_header has replaced Server::xml_header. Take care if you had overridden the server version - you might need to override Server::service
    • the $options argument passed to XMLParser::parse will now contain both options intended to be passed down to the php xml parser, and further options used to tweak the parsing results. If you have subclassed XMLParser and reimplemented the parse methods, or wholesale replaced it, you will have to adapt your code: both for that, and for making sure that it sets $this->current_parsing_options['xmlrpc_null_extension'] from PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_null_extension
    • also, if you had reimplemented XMLParser::parse, be warned that:
      • you should return $this->_xh instead of void
      • the callers now treat differently results when _xh['isf'] > 3
    • Client protected methods sendPayloadSocket, sendPayloadCURL and prepareCurlHandle are now deprecated. They have been replaced by sendViaSocket, sendViaCURL and createCurlHandle respectively
    • if you subclassed the Client class, take care of new static variables $requestClass and $responseClass, which should be used to instantiate requests and responses
    • if you had been somehow interacting with private method Client::_try_multicall, be warned its returned data has changed: it now returns a Response for the cases in which it previously returned false, and an array of Response objects for the cases in which it previously returned a string
    • if you replaced the Logger class, take care that you will have to implement methods error, warning and debug (all is ok if you subclassed it)
    • calling method Value::serializeData is now deprecated
    • traits have been introduced for all classes dealing with Logger, XMLParser and CharsetEncoder; method setCharsetEncoder is now static
    • new methods in helper classes: Charset::knownCharsets, Http::parseAcceptHeader, XMLParser::truncateValueForLog
    • protected property Server::$accepted_charset_encodings is now deprecated
    • exception \PhpXmlRpc\Exception\PhpXmlRpcException is deprecated. Use \PhpXmlRpc\Exception instead

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.5 - 2023/01/11

  • improved: revised all demo files. Showcase more features in client demos; isolate better testsuite functions in server demos and make sure they are not active unless triggered by running the tests; add demos for code-generation for both clients and servers

  • improved: added cli command taskfile, which can be used to download the demo files or the visualeditor component for the debugger (requires bash, curl and a smattering of other common unix/linux/macos? tools)

  • improved: for php 7 and up, catch php Errors besides Exceptions thrown by method handler functions (ie. server-side)

  • fixed: when using the Exception or Error thrown by a method handler function to build the xml-rpc response, override fault Code 0, as it breaks response serialization

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.4 - 2023/1/7

  • improved: updated the user's manual to be inline with the version4 API and modern coding practices. The manual is now bundled in the default distribution tarball, and is easily viewable as html, provided you can serve it using a webserver. It is also available as pdf at https://gggeek.github.io/phpxmlrpc/doc-4/phpxmlrpc_manual.pdf

  • improved: automated the process of creating the github release when pushing a release-tag to GitHub; also add a tarball of the demo files as release asset, and automatically update both http://gggeek.github.io and the code on altervista.org

  • improved: added a pre-push git hook script, to avoid pushing tagged versions with inconsistent version tags in code. To install it, execute composer run-script setup-git-hooks (NB: it is only useful for developers of this library, not for the developers simply using it)

  • fixed: the value for error 'no_http2' has been switched from 15 to 19 to avoid a collision

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.3 - 2022/12/20

  • improved: avoid stalling the webserver when using the debugger with the php cli-webserver and testing the demo server within the same install

  • improved: allow installation of the jsxmlrpc library within the debugger folder via composer or npm to enable the visual-editing capabilities of the debugger, as this works well when the debugger is used as web-root (target usage scenario being f.e. using the php cli-webserver to run the debugger)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.2 - 2022-12-18

  • security fix: removed the possibility of an XSS attack in the debugger. Since the debugger is not designed to be exposed to end users but only to the developers using this library, and in the default configuration it is not exposed to requests from the web, the severity of this issue can be considered low.

  • improved: the debugger now uses jsxmlrpc lib version 0.6. It loads it from a cdn rather than locally. It also can make use of a 2nd constant to help telling it where the visual-editor form the jsxmlrpc lib is located, in case its path on disk relative to the debugger and its url relative to the web root do not match.

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.1 - 2022-12-12

  • fixed: php warnings on php 8.2. This includes preferring usage of mbstring for converting between Latin1 and UTF-8

  • improved: CI tests now also run on php 8.2

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.9.0 - 2022/11/28

  • security fix: hardened the Client::send() method against misuse of the $method argument (issue #81). Abusing its value, it was possible to force the client to access local files or connect to undesired urls instead of the intended target server's url (the one used in the Client constructor).

    This weakness only affects installations where all the following conditions apply, at the same time:

    • the xmlrpc Client is used, ie. not xmlrpc servers
    • untrusted data (eg. data from remote users) is used as value for the $method argument of method Client::send(), in conjunction with conditions which trigger usage of curl as http transport (ie. either using the https, http11 or http2 protocols, or calling Client::setUseCurl() beforehand)
    • either have set the Clients return_type property to 'xml', or make the resulting Response's object httpResponse member, which is intended to be used for debugging purposes only, available to 3rd parties, eg. by displaying it to the end user or serializing it in some storage (note that the same data can also be accessed via magic property Response::raw_data, and in the Request's httpResponse member)

    This is most likely a very uncommon usage scenario, and as such the severity of this issue can be considered low.

    If it is not possible to upgrade to this release of the library at this time, a proactive security measure, to avoid the Client accessing any local file on the server which hosts it, is to add the following call to your code:

    $client->setCurlOptions([CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS|CURLPROTO_HTTP]);

  • security fix: hardened the Wrapper::buildClientWrapperCode method's code generation against code injection via usage of a malevolent $client argument (issue #80).

    In order for this weakness to be exploited, the following conditions have to apply, at the same time:

    • method Wrapper::buildClientWrapperCode, or any methods which depend on it, such as Wrapper::wrapXmlrpcServer, Wrapper::wrapXmlrpcMethod or Wrapper::buildWrapMethodSource must be in use. Note that they are not used by default in either the Client or Server classes provided by the library; the developer has to specifically make use of them in his/her own code
    • the $client argument to either of those methods should have been built with malicious data, ie. data controlled by a 3rd party, passed to its constructor call

    This is most likely an uncommon usage scenario, and as such the severity of this issue can be considered low.

    NB the graphical debugger which is shipped as part of the library is vulnerable to this, when used with the option "Generate stub for method call" selected. In that case, the debugger will display but not execute the malicious code, which would have to be provided via carefully crafted values for the "Address" and "Path" inputs.

    The attack scenario in this case is that a developer copies into his/her own source code the php snippet generated by the debugger, in a situation where the debugger is used with "Address"/"Path" input values supplied by a 3rd party. The malicious payload in the "Address"/"Path" input values should be easily recognized as suspicious by any barely proficient developer, as it resembles a bog-standard injection attack. It goes without saying that a responsible developer should not blindly copy and paste into his/her own code anything generated by a 3rd party tool, such as the phpxmlrpc debugger, without giving it at least a cursory scan.

  • fixed: a php warning on php 8 when parsing responses which do not have a Content-Type header (issue #104)

  • fixed: added a missing html-escaping call in demo file introspect.php

  • fixed: decoding of responses with latin-1 charset declared in the xml prolog but not in http headers, when on php 5.4, 5.5

  • fixed: DateTimeInterface is not present in php 5.4 (error introduced in ver. 4.8.1)

  • fixed: use of uninitialized var when accessing nonexisting member of legacy class xmlrpc_server - thanks SonarQube

  • new: the Client class now supports making calls which follow http redirections (issue #77). For that to work, use this code:

    $client->setUseCurl(\PhpXmlRpc\Client::USE_CURL_ALWAYS);
$client->setCurlOptions([CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, CURLOPT_POSTREDIR => 3]);

  • new: allow users of the library to get more fine-grained information about errors in parsing received responses by overriding the integer value of PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpcerr['invalid_xml'], PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpcerr['xml_not_compliant'], PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpcerr['xml_parsing_error'] and the equivalent PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpcstr strings (feature req. #101)

  • improved: added the HTTP/2 protocol to the debugger

  • improved: CI tests now run on php versions 5.4 and 5.5, besides all more recent ones

  • improved: the test container for local testing now defaults to php 7.4 on ubuntu 20 focal

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.8.1 - 2022/11/10

  • improved: remove warnings with php 8.1 due to usage of strftime (issue #103)

  • improved: cast correctly php objects sporting DateTimeInterface to phpxmlrpc datetime values

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.8.0 - 2022/6/20

  • fixed: the benchmark.php file had seen some tests accidentally dropped

  • improved: added method Client::prepareCurlHandle, to make it easier to send multiple requests in parallel when using curl and the server does not support system.multicall. See new demo file parallel.php for how this can be done.

  • fixed: error 'Class "PhpXmlRpc\Exception\PhpXmlrpcException" not found' when including xmlrpc.inc and on php 8.1 (might also happen on other php versions) (issue #99)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.7.2 - 2022/5/25

  • modified the strings used to tell the client to use http/2: to avoid users mistaking 'http2' for the preferred value, we switched to using h2 and h2c

  • improved: the benchmark.php file does now also test calls using https and http/2 protocols

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.7.1 - 2022/5/25

  • fixed: http/2 on non-https requests (known as h2c) works in either "prior-knowledge" mode or "upgrade" mode. Given the fact that "upgrade" mode is not compatible with POST requests, we switched to using "prior-knowledge" mode for requests sent with the h2c argument passed to the client's constructor or send method. NB: this means that requests sent with h2c are only compatible with servers and proxies known to be http/2 compliant.

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.7.0 - 2022/5/25

  • new: HTTP/2 is supported by both the Client and Server components (with the php cURL extension being required to use it client-side) (issue #94). To force the client to use http/2 over tls or http/2 over tcp requests, pass h2 or h2c as 3rd argument to Client::send.

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.6.1 - 2022/2/15

  • fixed: one php warning with php 8 and up (issue #97)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.6.0 - 2021/12/9

  • fixed: compatibility with php 8.1

  • improved: when encoding utf-8 text into us-ascii xml, use character entity references for characters number 0-31 (ascii non printable characters), as we were already doing when encoding ISO-8859-1 text into us-ascii xml

  • new: method Server::getDispatchMap(). Useful for non-child classes which want to f.e. introspect the server

  • new: increase flexibility in class composition by adopting a Dependency Injection (...ish) pattern: it is now possible to swap out the Logger, XMLParser and Charset classes with similar ones of your own making. Example code:

    // 1. create an instance of a custom character encoder
// $myCharsetEncoder = ...
// 2. then use it while serializing a Request:
Request::setCharsetEncoder($myCharsetEncoder);
$request->serialize($funkyCharset);

  • new: method XMLParser::parse() acquired a 4th argument

  • new: method Wrapper::wrapPhpClass allows to customize the names of the phpxmlrpc methods by stripping the original class name and accompanying namespace and replace it with a user-defined prefix, via option replace_class_name

  • new: Response constructor gained a 4th argument

  • deprecated: properties Response::hdrs, Response::_cookies, Response::raw_data. Use Response::httpResponse() instead. That method returns an array which also holds the http response's status code - useful in case of http errors.

  • deprecated: method Request::createPayload. Use Request::serialize instead

  • deprecated: property Request::httpResponse

  • improved: Http::parseResponseHeaders now throws a more specific exception in case of http errors

  • improved: Continuous Integration is now running on Github Actions instead of Travis

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.2 - 2021/1/11

  • improved: better phpdocs in the php code generated by the Wrapper class

  • improved: debugger favicon and page title when used from the phpjsonrpc library

  • fixed: allow Encoder::decode to properly support different target character sets for polyfill-xmlrpc decode functions

  • improved: allow usage of 'epivals' for the 'parameters_type' member of methods definitions in the Server dispatch map

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.1 - 2021/1/3

  • improved: made it easier to subclass the Helper\Charset class by allowing instance to use late static binding

  • fixed: reinstated access to xmlrpc_server->dmap (for users of the v3 API)

  • fixed: method xmlrpc_encode_entitites (for users of the v3 API)

  • improved: split the code of the demo server in multiple files, describing better the purpose of each

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.5.0 - 2020/12/31

  • new: it is now possible to control the precision used when serializing DOUBLE values via usage of PhpXmlRpc::$xmlpc_double_precision

  • fixed: Encoder::encode would not correctly encode DateTime and DateTimeImmutable objects

  • improvements to the Helper\Date class in rejecting invalid date strings

  • improvements to the Wrapper class in identifying required arguments types from source code phpdoc: support 'array[]', 'DateTime' and 'DateTimeImmutable'

  • improvements to the support of the XMLRPC extension emulation (now provided by the phpxmlrpc/polyfill-xmlrpc package)

  • minor improvements to the Charset helper: it now loads character set conversion tables on demand, leading to slightly lower memory usage and faster execution time when using UTF-8 everywhere. NB: take care if you have subclassed it!

  • new method: Server::isSyscall - mostly of use to Server subclasses and friend classes such as introspectors

  • internal method XMLParser::xmlrpc_ee now accepts 3 states for its 3rd parameter instead of a bool

  • improvements in the inline phpdoc: tagged many methods and class member as reserved for internal usage only

  • minor improvements in the debugger to allow easier integration of phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc and friends

  • reorganized the test suite to be more manageable

  • removed obsolete files from the 'extras' folder; updated and moved to the 'demo' folders the perl and python client scripts; moved benchmark.php and verify_compat.php to the 'extras' folder

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.3 - 2020/12/17

  • fixed: compatibility with PHP 8.0 (fixes to the debugger, to the server's 'system.methodHelp' method and to the PhpXmlRpc\Wrapper class). Note that method Value::structeach has not been removed from the API, but it is not supported when running on PHP 8.0 or later - in that case it will always throw an Error.

  • improvements to the test stack: it is now possible to run it via Docker besides Travis; avoid using any external server when running tests; run Travis tests also on php 8.0; bump PHPUnit versions in use

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.2 - 2020/3/4

  • fixed: client->setCookie() bug: cookie values that contain spaces are now properly encoded in a way that gets them decoded back to spaces on the receiving end if the server running on php 7.4 (or does RFC-compliant cookie decoding). Beforehand we were encoding spaces to '+' characters.

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.4.1 - 2019/7/29

  • fixed: allow handling huge xml messages (>=10MB) (issue #71)

  • improved: make it easier to overtake the library's usage of error_log

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.2 - 2019/5/27

  • fixed: remove one php 7.2 warning when using the v3 api

  • improved: the Travis tests are now run with all php versions from 5.6 to 7.3. We dropped tests with php 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.1 - 2018/1/20

  • fixed: error when using https in non-curl mode

  • fixed: compatibility of tests with php 7.2

  • fixed: html injection in sample code

  • fixed: warnings emitted by the legacy server in xmlrpcs.inc

  • fixed: encoding of php variables of type 'resource' when using xmlrpc_encode in php-compatibility mode

  • fixed: bad html tag in sample code

  • improved: text of error messages

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.3.0 - 2017/11/6

  • fixed: compatibility with Basic/Digest/NTLM auth when using client in cURL mode (issue #58)

  • improved: added unit tests for Basic and Digest http auth. Also improved tests suite

  • new: allow to force usage of curl for http 1.0 calls, as well as plain socket for https calls, via the method Client::setUseCurl()

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.2 - 2017/10/15

  • fixed: compatibility with Lighttpd target servers when using client in cURL mode and request body size > 1024 bytes (issue #56)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.1 - 2017/9/3

  • fixed: compatibility with php 7.2 (issue #55)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.2.0 - 2017/6/30

  • improved: allow also DateTimeImmutable objects to be detected as a date when encoding

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.1 - 2016/10/1

  • fixed: error in server class: undefined function php_xmlrpc_encode (only triggered when not using the compatibility shim with old versions)

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.1.0 - 2016/6/26

  • improved: Added support for receiving <I8> and <EX:I8> integers, sending <I8>

    If php is compiled in 32 bit mode, and an i8 int is received from a 3rd party, and error will be emitted. Integers sent from the library to 3rd parties can be encoded using the i8 tag, but default to using 'int' by default; the developer will have to create values as i8 explicitly if needed. The library does not check if an outgoing integer is too big to fit in 4 bytes and convert it to an i8 automatically.

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.1 - 2016/3/27

  • improved: all the API documentation has been moved out of the manual and into the source code phpdoc comments

  • fixed: when the internal character set is set to UTF-8 and the client sends requests (or the server responses), too many characters were encoded as numeric entities, whereas some, like åäö, needed not to be

  • fixed: the 'valtyp' property of Response was not present in all cases; the ValType property had been added by error and has been removed

XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 2016/1/20

This release does away with the past and starts a transition to modern-world php.

Code has been heavily refactored, taking care to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible, but some breackage is to be expected.

The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, even though we strongly urge you to use more recent versions.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade.

  • new: introduction of namespaces and full OOP.

    All php classes have been renamed and moved to separate files. Class autoloading can now be done in accord with the PSR-4 standard. All global variables and global functions have been removed. Iterating over xmlrpc value objects is now easier thank to support for ArrayAccess and Traversable interfaces.

    Backward compatibility is maintained via lib/xmlrpc.inc, lib/xmlrpcs.inc and lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc. For more details, head on to doc/api_changes_v4.md

  • changed: the default character encoding delivered from the library to your code is now utf-8. It can be changed at any time setting a value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_internalencoding

  • improved: the library now accepts requests/responses sent using other character sets than UTF-8/ISO-8859-1/ASCII. This only works when the mbstring php extension is enabled.

  • improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https with recent curl builds

  • improved: the xmlrpcval class now supports the interfaces Countable and IteratorAggregate

  • improved: a specific option allows users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls. This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate, and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as on Travis VMs)

  • improved: the function wrap_php_function() now can be used to wrap closures (it is now a method btw)

  • improved: all wrap_something() functions now return a closure by default instead of a function name

  • improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line

  • improved: the library is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ). Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.2; code-coverage information is generated using php 5.6 and uploaded to both Code Coverage and Scrutinizer online services

  • improved: phpunit is now installed via Composer, not bundled anymore

  • improved: when phpunit is used to generate code-coverage data, the code executed server-side is accounted for

  • improved: the test suite has basic checks for the debugger and demo files

  • improved: more tests in the test suite

  • fixed: the server would not reset the user-set debug messages between subsequent service() calls

  • fixed: the server would not reset previous php error handlers when an exception was thrown by user code and exception_handling set to 2

  • fixed: the server would fail to decode a request with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml prolog only

  • fixed: the client would fail to decode a response with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml prolog only

  • fixed: the function decode_xml() would not decode an xml with character set declaration in the xml prolog

  • fixed: the client can now successfully call methods using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 characters in their name

  • fixed: the debugger would fail sending a request with ISO-8859-1 payload (it missed the character set declaration). It would have a hard time coping with ISO-8859-1 in other fields, such as e.g. the remote method name

  • fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for signatures containing NULL or undefined parameters

  • fixed: the debugger would generate a bad payload via the 'load method synopsis' button for methods with multiple signatures

  • improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service

  • improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding; previously those messages would just disappear (this is visible e.g. in the debugger)

  • changed: debug info handling

    • at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that)
    • at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen
    • at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads

  • improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile

  • improved: the source for the manual is stored in AsciiDoc format, which can be displayed natively by GitHub with nice html formatting. Also, the HTML version generated by hand and bundled in tarballs is much nicer to look at than previous versions

  • improved: all PHP code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard

XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15

This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since version 3.0.0 beta.

The requirements have increased to php 5.1.0 - which is still way older than what you should be running for any serious purpose, really.

It also is the first release to be installable via Composer.

See the Changelog file or the pdf docs for a complete list of changes.

XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 beta - 2009/09/05

This is the first release of the library to only support PHP 5. Some legacy code has been removed, and support for features such as exceptions and DateTime objects introduced.

The "beta" tag is meant to indicate the fact that the refactoring has been more widespread than in precedent releases and that more changes are likely to be introduced with time - the library is still considered to be production quality.

  • improved: removed all usage of php functions deprecated in php 5.3, usage of assign-by-ref when creating new objects etc...
  • improved: add support for the ex:nil/ tag used by the apache library, both in input and output
  • improved: add support for DateTime objects in both in php_xmlrpc_encode and as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
  • improved: add support for timestamps as parameter for constructor of xmlrpcval
  • improved: add option 'dates_as_objects' to php_xmlrpc_decode to return dateTime objects for xmlrpc datetimes
  • improved: add new method SetCurlOptions to xmrlpc_client to allow extra flexibility in tweaking http config, such as explicitly binding to an ip address
  • improved: add new method setUserAgent to xmrlpc_client to allow having different user-agent http headers
  • improved: add a new member variable in server class to allow fine-tuning of the encoding of returned values when the server is in 'phpvals' mode
  • improved: allow servers in 'xmlrpcvals' mode to also register plain php functions by defining them in the dispatch map with an added option
  • improved: catch exceptions thrown during execution of php functions exposed as methods by the server
  • fixed: bad encoding if the same object is encoded twice using php_xmlrpc_encode

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.2 - 2009/03/16

This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since version 2.2.1. Regardless of the intimidating message about dropping PHP 4 support, it still does support that ancient, broken and insecure platform.

  • fixed: php warning when receiving 'false' in a bool value
  • fixed: improve robustness of the debugger when parsing weird results from non-compliant servers
  • fixed: format floating point values using the correct decimal separator even when php locale is set to one that uses comma
  • fixed: use feof() to test if socket connections are to be closed instead of the number of bytes read (rare bug when communicating with some servers)
  • fixed: be more tolerant in detection of charset in http headers
  • fixed: fix encoding of UTF-8 chars outside the BMP plane
  • fixed: fix detection of zlib.output_compression
  • improved: allow the add_to_map server method to add docs for single params too
  • improved: added the possibility to wrap for exposure as xmlrpc methods plain php class methods, object methods and even whole classes

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2.1 - 2008/03/06

This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced. It is the last release of the library that will support PHP 4.

  • fixed: work around bug in php 5.2.2 which broke support of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
  • fixed: is_dir parameter of setCaCertificate() method is reversed
  • fixed: a php warning in xmlrpc_client creator method
  • fixed: parsing of '1e+1' as valid float
  • fixed: allow errorlevel 3 to work when prev. error handler was a static method
  • fixed: usage of client::setcookie() for multiple cookies in non-ssl mode
  • improved: support for CP1252 charset is not part or the library but almost possible
  • improved: more info when curl is enabled and debug mode is on

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.2 - 2007/02/25

This release corrects a couple of bugs and adds a few minor features.

  • fixed: debugger errors on php installs with magic_quotes_gpc on
  • fixed: support for https connections via proxy
  • fixed: wrap_xmlrpc_method() generated code failed to properly encode php objects
  • improved: slightly faster encoding of data which is internally UTF-8
  • improved: debugger always generates a 'null' id for jsonrpc if user omits it
  • new: debugger can take advantage of a graphical value builder (it has to be downloaded separately, as part of jsxmlrpc package)
  • new: support for the xmlrpc extension
  • new: server support for the system.getCapabilities xmlrpc extension
  • new: wrap_xmlrpc_method() accepts two new options: debug and return_on_fault

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.1 - 2006/08/28

This release corrects quite a few bugs and adds some interesting new features. There is a minor security enhancement and overall speedup too.

It has been tested with PHP 4.0.5 up to 4.4.4 and 5.1.5. Please note that 404pl1 is NOT supported, and has not been since 2.0.

*** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW ***

CHANGES THAT MIGHT AFFECT DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS:

The wrap_php_function and wrap_xmlrpc_method functions have been moved out of the base library file xmlrpc.inc into a file of their own: xmlrpc_wrappers.inc. You will have to include() / require() it in your scripts if you have been using those functions.

For increased security, the automatic rebuilding of php object instances out of received xmlrpc structs in wrap_xmlrpc_method() has been disabled (but it can be optionally reenabled).

The constructor of xmlrpcval() values has seen major changes, and it will not throw a php warning anymore when invoked using an unknown xmlrpc type: the error will only be written to php error log. Also, new xmlrpcval('true', 'boolean') is not supported anymore.

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS:

The new function php_xmlrpc_decode_xml() will take the xml representation of either an xmlrpc request, response or single value and return the corresponding php-xmlrpc object instance.

Both wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method() functions accept many more options to fine tune their behaviour, including one to return the php code to be saved and later used as standalone php script.

A new function wrap_xmlrpc_server() has been added, to wrap all (or some) of the methods exposed by a remote xmlrpc server into a php class.

Lib internals have been modified to provide better support for grafting extra functionality on top of it. Stay tuned for future releases of the EXTRAS package.

Last but not least a new file has been added: verify_compat.php, to help users diagnose the level of compliance of the current php install with the library.

CHANGELOG IN DETAIL:

  • fixed bug 1311927: client not playing nice with some proxy/firewall on ports != 80
  • fixed bug 1334340: all ereg_ functions have been replaced with corresponding preg_
  • fixed bug: wrong handling of 'deflate' http encoding, both server and client side
  • fixed bug: sending compressed responses when php output compression is enabled was not working
  • fixed bug: addarray() and addstruct() where not returning 1 when adding data to already initialized values
  • fixed bug: non-ascii chars used in struct element names where not being encoded correctly
  • restored compatibility with php 4.0.5 (for those poor souls still stuck on it)
  • server->service() now returns either the payload or xmlrpcresp instance
  • server->add_to_map() now accepts methods with no param definitions
  • added new function: php_xmlrpc_decode_xml()
  • added new function: wrap_xmlrpc_server()
  • major improvements and security enhancements to wrap_php_function() and wrap_xmlrpc_method()
  • documentation for single parameters of exposed methods can be added to the dispatch map (and turned into html docs in conjunction with a future release of the extras package)
  • full response payload is saved into xmlrpcresp object for further debugging
  • stricter parsing of incoming xmlrpc messages: two more invalid cases are now detected (double data element inside array and struct/array after scalar inside value element)
  • debugger can now generate code that wraps a remote method into php function (works for jsonrpc, too)
  • debugger has better support for being activated via a single GET call (for integration into other tools?)
  • more logging of errors in a lot of situations
  • javadoc documentation of lib files almost complete
  • the usual amount of new testcases in the testsuite
  • many performance tweaks and code cleanups
  • added foundation for emulating the API of the xmlrpc extension (extras package needed)

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0 - 2006/04/24

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, final.

With respect to the last release candidate, this release corrects a few small bugs and adds a couple of new features: more authentication options (digest and ntlm for servers, ntlm for proxies, and some https custom certificates stuff); all the examples have been reviewed and some demo files added, including a ready-made xmlrpc proxy (useful e.g. for ajax calls, when the xmlrpc client is a browser); the server logs more warning messages for incorrect situations; both client and server are more tolerant of commonly-found mistakes. The debugger has been upgraded to reflect the new client capabilities.

In greater detail:

  • fixed bug: method xmlrpcval::structmemexists($value) would not work
  • fixed bug: wrap_xmlrpc_method would fail if invoked with a client object that has return_type=phpvals
  • fixed bug: in case of call to client::multicall without fallback and server error
  • fixed bug: recursive serialization of xmlrpcvals loosing specified UTF-8 charset
  • fixed bug: serializing to ISO-8859-1 with php 5 would raise an error if non-ascii chars where found when decoding
  • new: client can use NTLM and Digest authentication methods for https and http 1.1 connections; authentication to proxy can be set to NTLM, too
  • new: server tolerates user functions returning a single xmlrpcval object instead of an xmlrpcresp
  • new: server does more checks for presence and correct return type of user coded method handling functions, and logs inconsistencies to php error log
  • new: client method SetCaCertificate($cert, $is_dir) to validate server against
  • new: both server and client tolerate receiving 'true' and 'false' for bool values (which btw are not valid according to the xmlrpc spec)

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC3 - 2006/01/22

This release corrects a few bugs and adds some interesting new features. It has been tested with PHP up to 4.4.2 and 5.1.2.

  • fixed bug: server not recognizing clients that declare support for http compression
  • fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval (8, 'string') when internal encoding set to UTF-8
  • fixed bug: serialization of new xmlrpcval ('hello', 'int') would produce invalid xml-rpc
  • new: let the server accept 'class::method' syntax in the dispatch map
  • new: php_xmlrpc_decode() can decode xmlrpcmessage objects
  • new: both client and server can specify a charset to be used for serializing values instead of the default 'US-ASCII+xml-entities-for-other-characters'. Values allowed: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
  • new: the server object can register 'plain' php functions instead of functions that accept a single parameter of type xmlrpcmsg. Faster, uses less memory (but comes with minor drawbacks as well, read the manual for more details)
  • new: client::setDebug(2) can be used to have the request payload printed to screen before being sent
  • new: server::service($data) lets user parse data other than POST body, for easier testing / subclassing
  • changed: framework-generated debug messages are sent back by the server base64 encoded, to avoid any charset/xml compatibility problem
  • other minor fixes

The usual refactoring of a lot of (private) methods has taken place, with new parameters added to some functions. Javadoc documentation has been improved a lot. The HTML documentation has been shuffled around a bit, hoping to give it a more logical organization.

The experimental support for the JSON protocol has been removed, and will be packaged as a separate download with some extra very interesting stuff (human readable auto-generated documentation, anyone?).

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC2 - 2005/11/22

This release corrects a few bugs and adds basically one new method for better HTTPS support:

  • fixed two bugs that prevented xmlrpc calls to take place over https
  • fixed two bugs that prevented proper recognition of xml character set when it was declared inside the xml prologue
  • added xmlrpc_client::setKey($key, $keypass) method, to allow using client side certificates for https connections
  • fixed bug that prevented proper serialization of string xmlrpcvals when $xmlrpc_internalencoding was set to UTF-8
  • fixed bug in xmlrpc_server::echoInput() (and marked method as deprecated)
  • correctly set cookies/http headers into xmlrpcresp objects even when the send() method call fails for some reason
  • added a benchmark file in the testsuite directory

A couple of (private/protected) methods have been refactored, as well as a couple of extra parameters added to some (private) functions - this has no impact on the public API and should be of interest primarily to people extending / subclassing the lib.

There is also new, PARTIAL support for the JSON-RPC protocol, implemented in two files in the extras dir (more info about json-rpc at http://json-rpc.org)

XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0RC1 - 2005/10/03

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 2.0, release candidate 1.

This release introduces so many new features it is almost impossible to list them here, making the library finally on pair with, if not more advanced than, any other similar offer (e.g. the PEAR XMLRPC package or the Incutio IXR library). No, really, trust me.

The minimum supported PHP version is now 4.2 - natively - or 4.0.4pl1 - by usage of a couple of compatibility classes (code taken from PEAR php_compat package).

The placement of files and directories in the distribution has been deeply modified, in the hope of making it more clear, now that the file count has increased. I hope you find it easy.

Support for "advanced" HTTP features such as cookies, proxies and keep-alives has been added at last.

It is now much easier to convert between xmlrpcval objects and php values, and in fact php_xmlrpc_encode and php_xmlrpc_decode are now the recommended methods for all cases, except when encoding base64 data.

Two new (experimental) functions have been added, allowing automagic conversion of a php function into an xmlrpc method to be exposed and vice-versa.

PHP objects can be now automatically serialized as xmlrpc struct values and correctly deserialized on the other end of the transmission, provided that the same class definition is present on both sides and no object members are of type resource.

A lot of the existing class methods have been overloaded with extra parameters or new functionality, and a few added ex-novo, making usage easier than ever.

A complete debugger solution is included in the distribution. It needs a web server to run (a freely available version of the same debugger is accessible online, it can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net).

For a more detailed list of changes, please read carefully chapter 2 of the included documentation, or, even better, take a look at the source code, which is commented in javadoc style quite a bit.

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2.1 - 2005/09

This release restores compatibility with PHP3, which had been broken in release 1.2. The only other changes are some minor documentation updates and removal of unused files that had been erroneously packed in 1.2.

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 - 2005/08/14

This removes all use of eval(), which is a potential security problem. All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. As of this release we are no longer php3-compatible.

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 - 2005/06/30

This is a security vulnerability fix release. All users are invited to upgrade as soon as possible.

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 - 2005/05/03

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1 It's taken two years to get to this point, but here we are, finally.

This is a bugfix and maintenance release. No major new features have been added. All known bugs have been ironed out, unless fixing would have meant breaking the API. The code has been tested with PHP 3, 4 and 5, even tough PHP 4 is the main development platform (and some warnings will be emitted when running PHP5).

Noteworthy changes include:

  • do not clash any more with the EPI xmlrpc extension bundled with PHP 4 and 5
  • fixed the unicode/charset problems that have been plaguing the lib for years
  • proper parsing of int and float values prepended with zeroes or the '+' char
  • accept float values in exponential notation
  • configurable http user-agent string
  • use the same timeout on client socket reads as used for connecting
  • more explicative error messages in xmlrpcresponse in many cases
  • much more tolerant parsing of malformed http responses from xmlrpc servers
  • fixed memleak that prevented the client to be used in never-ending scripts
  • parse bigger xmlrpc messages without crashing (1MB in size or more)
  • be tolerant to xmlrpc responses generated on public servers that add javascript advertising at the end of hosted content
  • the lib generates quite a few less PHP warnings during standard operation

This is the last release that will support PHP 3. The next release will include better support for PHP 5 and (possibly) a slew of new features.

The changelog is available at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup

Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 (final). It's taken two years to get to the 1.0 point, but here we are, finally. The major change is re-licensing with the BSD open source license, a move from the custom license previously used.

After this release I expect to move the project to SourceForge and find another primary maintainer for the code. More details will follow to the mailing list.

It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/

Bugfixes in this release include:

  • Small fixes and tidying up.

New features include:

  • experimental support for SSL via the curl extensions to PHP. Needs PHP 4.0.2 or greater, but not PHP 4.0.6 which has broken SSL support.

The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt

Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to [email protected].

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9. This is largely a bugfix release.

It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/

Bugfixes in this release include:

  • Fixed string handling bug where characters between a and tag were not ignored.

  • Added in support for PHP's native boolean type.

New features include:

  • new getval() method (experimental only) which has support for recreating nested arrays.
  • fledgling unit test suite
  • server.php has support for basic interop test suite

The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt

Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to [email protected].

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8.

This release fixes several bugs and adds a couple of new helper functions. The most critical change in this release is that you can no longer print debug info in comments inside a server method -- you must now use the new xmlrpc_debugmsg() function.

It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/

Bugfixes in this release include:

  • fixed whitespace handling in values
  • correct sending of Content-length from the server

New features include:

  • xmlrpc_debugmsg() method allows sending of debug info in comments in the return payload from a server

  • xmlrpc_encode() and xmlrpc_decode() translate between xmlrpcval objects and PHP language arrays. They aren't suitable for all datatypes, but can speed up coding in simple scenarios. Thanks to Dan Libby for these.

The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt

Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to [email protected].

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7. This is fixes some critical bugs that crept in. If it shows itself to be stable then it'll become the 1.0 release.

It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/

Bugfixes in this release include:

  • Passing of booleans should now work as expected
  • Dollar signs and backslashes in strings should pass OK
  • addScalar() now works properly to append to array vals

New features include:

  • Added support for HTTP Basic authorization through the xmlrpc_client::setCredentials method.

  • Added test script and method for verifying correct passing of booleans

The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt

Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to [email protected].

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6

I'm pleased to announce ## XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6. This is the final beta before the 1.0 release.

It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/

New features in this release include:

  • Perl and Python test programs for the demo server
  • Proper fault generation on a non-"200 OK" response from a remote host
  • Bugfixed base64 decoding
  • ISO8601 helper routines for translation to and from UNIX timestamps
  • reorganization of code to allow eventual integration of alternative transports

The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt

Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to [email protected].