Ripcord is a very easy to use XML-RPC library for PHP. It provides client, server and auto documentation features for XML-RPC but also SimpleRPC and simplified SOAP (1.1). It uses PHP's xmlrpc library and it needs at least PHP 5.
To create a simple xmlrpc client do something like this:
<?php require_once('ripcord.php'); $client = ripcord::xmlrpcClient( 'http://www.moviemeter.nl/ws' ); $score = $client->film->getScore( 'e3dee9d19a8c3af7c92f9067d2945b59', 500 ); ?>
See the RipcordClientManual http://code.google.com/p/ripcord/wiki/RipcordClientManual for more information.
To create a simple xmlrpc server do something like this:
<?php require_once('ripcord.php'); class myTest { public function Foo() { return 'Bar'; } } $test = new MyTest(); $server = ripcord::server( $test ); $server->run(); ?>
See the RipcordServerManual http://code.google.com/p/ripcord/wiki/RipcordServerManual for more information.
Ripcord is also very simple to extend. All functionality can be changed through dependency injection. The client by default uses the PHP Streams API to connect to a server, but can simply be reconfigured to use CURL. You can provide your own configuration or even a completely new transport method by simply injecting a new transport object into the client.
Any server created with Ripcord is auto documenting by default. Simply browse to the URL of your RPC server and you will see a list of all methods including any inline documentation for that method, if you use docblock style comments, e.g.:
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The auto documentor is again easily extended to use your own styles or extensions and you can simply inject a completely different documentor object into the server if you want. Or skip it altogether.
The full API documentation is included in the docs/ directory.