<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Reserved methods</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="Debugging aids" HREF="debugging.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="system.methodSignature" HREF="sysmethodsig.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="debugging.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sysmethodsig.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="RESERVED" >Chapter 7. Reserved methods</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="reserved.html#AEN776" >system.listMethods</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="sysmethodsig.html" >system.methodSignature</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="sysmethhelp.html" >system.methodHelp</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >In order to extend the functionality offered by XML-RPC servers without impacting on the protocol, I've included experimental support in this release for reserved methods.</P ><P >All methods starting with <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >system.</TT > are considered reserved by the server. PHP for XML-RPC itself provides three special methods, detailed in this chapter.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN776" >system.listMethods</A ></H1 ><P >This method may be used to enumerate the methods implemented by the XML-RPC server.</P ><P >The <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >system.listMethods</TT > method requires no parameters. It returns an array of strings, each of which is the name of a method implemented by the server.</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="debugging.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="sysmethodsig.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Debugging aids</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >system.methodSignature</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >