看了几个的关于web架构方面的获奖作品,感受颇深,xml和php结合应用越来多了,里面几乎所有的作品在设计上都用到了xml这个东西.....-_-! 又落伍了不少. 建议朋友们都去看看. 所以自己这几天在疯狂的学习php和xml结合的相关知识.
这其中就遇到了XML-RPC服务, 在网上可以找到的资料不多, 而且大多数都是用了其他第三方用php开发的XML-RPC class, 而用php5自带的xmlrpc函数(目前是试验模块)的好像就不多了, 但是个人还是比较喜欢原生的东西,就自己研究了一下.

在手册中有人提供了一个例子,但是不支持中文, 并且没有告诉在客户端返回结果后怎么处理这个结果. 自己苦搞半天终于搞明白了,其实可以很轻松让他支持中文, 并且几乎不需要做任何额外的工作.

下面是他原来的例子(可以在手册中找到):
/* clienttest.php */
<?php
function do_call($host, $port, $request) {
  
   $fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr);
   $query = "POST /servertest.php HTTP/1.0\nUser_Agent: My Egg Client\nHost: ".$host."\nContent-Type: text/xml\nContent-Length: ".strlen($request)."\n\n".$request."\n";

   if (!fputs($fp, $query, strlen($query))) {
       $errstr = "Write error";
       return 0;
   }

   $contents = '';
   while (!feof($fp)) {
       $contents .= fgets($fp);
   }

   fclose($fp);
   return $contents;
}

$host = 'localhost';
$port = 80;
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('cycle', 'egg');
$response = do_call($host, $port, $request);
/* do something with $response, e.g. print it */
?>

/* servertest.php */
<?php
function lifecycle($method, $params) {
/* $method = 'cycle', $params = (array of) request parameter(s); $data is also passed from xmlrpc_server_call_method, if we had any data to pass */
   switch($params[0]) {
       case 'egg':
           $reply = 'All eggs will be birds one day.';
       break;
       default:
           $reply = 'That must have been an otheregg';
   }
   return $reply;
}

$server = xmlrpc_server_create();

/* register the 'external' name and then the 'internal' name */
xmlrpc_server_register_method($server, "cycle", "lifecycle");

$request = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; // no you don't need 'always on', and no $_POST doesn't work.

/* the parameters here are 'server, xml-string and user data'.  There's supposed to be an optional 'output options' array too, but I can't get it working :( hence header() call */
$response = xmlrpc_server_call_method($server, $request, null);
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print $response;

xmlrpc_server_destroy($server);
?>

这个例子中客户端得到$response后没有作任何的处理,这个返回值是这个样子的字符串:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:21:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Win32) PHP/5.0.1
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.1
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=GB2312

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
 <param>
  <value>
   <string>All eggs will be birds one day.</string>
  </value>
 </param>
</params>
</methodResponse>

这个字符串包含了两个部分,一个是html的头信息,一个是xml-rpc包文件,对他稍微进行一下处理就可以满足我们的要求了.

下面看看我修改过的例子,主要用了一个xmlrpc_decode函数,网上没有找到说明,自己试了半天,才试出来他的用法:
/* clienttest.php */
<?php
function do_call($host, $port, $request) {

   $fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr);
   $query = "POST /servertest.php HTTP/1.0\nUser_Agent: My Egg Client\nHost: ".$host."\nContent-Type: text/xml\nContent-Length: ".strlen($request)."\n\n".$request."\n";

   if (!fputs($fp, $query, strlen($query))) {
       $errstr = "Write error";
       ret