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PHP XML-RPC

1st September 2002

I’ve been playing with XML-RPC and PHP today. I ended up using Keith Devin’s pleasantly straight forward library thanks to PHP’s built in (and completely undocumented) XML-RPC support conflicting with the function names used by Useful Inc’s partially object oriented library. I’ve been messing around with Stuart’s idea for a trackback alternative and things are looking pretty promising.

Posted 1st September 2002 at 8:41 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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