On Thu, August 17, 2006 4:10 pm, Shu Chow wrote: > Hi, I have a question that's been bugging me for a while. What's the > difference between xmlrpc_decode and xmlrpc_decode_request? _request > takes an extra parameter, $method, but I can't figure out what kind of > effect it has. I can pass a totally bogus parameter to it. > > What's the difference between these two functions, and what does the > $method parameter do? Since the second parameter, $method, is actually &$method, it probably doesn't matter what you pass *IN* to it -- It's probably going to have something interesting in it after the function is called. It's kind of like having a second, optional, return value that you can use to see what happened. A documented example of this usage is in 'exec': http://php.net/exec As you can see, the $output and $error parameters are optional and &$arg indicates that PHP will be altering whatever is in them. Given that your mystery parameter is called $method, I'm guessing that you will be told what method of decoding, if any, was done on the data. //Try something like this: $data = xmlrpc_decode_request($xml, $method); echo "Method returned was: $method<hr />\n"; echo "<pre>"; var_dump($data); echo "</pre>\n"; Once you figure it out, please add a User Contributed Note, so everybody else will know. And then maybe somebody can promote your notes into the actual docs and call it done. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
