XML-RPC for PHP: version 1.1
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Easy use with PHP arrays

Dan Libby was kind enough to contribute two helper functions + that make it easier to translate to and from PHP arrays. This + makes it easier to deal with complex structures. At the moment + support is limited to int, double, + string, array and struct + datatypes; note also that all PHP arrays are encoded as structs + due to PHP not being able to tell the difference between a hash + and a linear array.

These functions reside in xmlrpc.inc.

xmlrpc_decode

$arr=xmlrpc_decode($xmlrpc_val);

Returns a PHP array stuffed with the values found in the + xmlrpcval $xmlrpc_val, + translated into native PHP types. +

xmlrpc_encode

$xmlrpc_val=xmlrpc_encode($phpval);

Returns an xmlrpcval populated with the PHP + values in $phpval. Works recursively on + arrays and structs. Note that there's no support for non-base + types like base-64 values or date-times. +