<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 "><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="edd@usefulinc.com"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="XML-RPC for PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="XML-RPC for PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Files in the distribution" HREF="manifest.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >XML-RPC for PHP: version 1.0b9</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="manifest.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="INTRODUCTION" >Chapter 1. Introduction</A ></H1 ><P >XML-RPC is a format devised by <A HREF="http://www.userland.com/" TARGET="_top" >Userland Software</A > for achieving remote procedure call via XML. XML-RPC has its own web site, <A HREF="http://www.xmlrpc.com/" TARGET="_top" >www.XmlRpc.com</A ></P ><P >The most common implementations of XML-RPC available at the moment use HTTP as the transport. A list of implementations for other languages such as Perl and Python can be found on the <A HREF="http://www.xmlrpc.com/" TARGET="_top" >www.XmlRpc.com</A >.</P ><P >This collection of PHP classes provides a framework for writing XML-RPC clients and servers in PHP.</P ><DIV CLASS="WARNING" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="WARNING" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Warning</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P >The <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >server code</I > works only with versions of PHP3 >= 3.0.12. The code is also known to work with PHP4. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN33" >Acknowledgements</A ></H1 ><P >Jim Winstead <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:jimw@php.net" >jimw@php.net</A >></TT ></P ><P >Peter Kocks <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:peter.kocks@baygate.com" >peter.kocks@baygate.com</A >></TT ></P ><P >Nicolay Mausz <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:mausz@flying-dog.com" >mausz@flying-dog.com</A >></TT ></P ><P >Ben Margolin <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:ben@wendy.auctionwatch.com" >ben@wendy.auctionwatch.com</A >></TT ></P ><P >Dan Libby <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:dan@libby.com" >dan@libby.com</A >></TT ></P ><P >Gaetano Giunta <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:g.giunta@libero.it" >g.giunta@libero.it</A >></TT ></P ><P >Idan Sofer <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:i_sofer@yahoo.com" >i_sofer@yahoo.com</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manifest.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >XML-RPC for PHP</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Files in the distribution</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >