phpxmlrpc/extras

A collection of server-side addons that might be of use for development of xml-rpc (and json-rpc) based applications

1.0.1 2025-11-11 13:30 UTC

Requires

• php: ^5.4.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• phpxmlrpc/phpxmlrpc: ^4.10.1

Requires (Dev)

• ext-curl: *
• phpunit/phpunit: ^4.8.28 || ^5.6.3 || ^8.5.42
• phpunit/phpunit-selenium: *
• phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc: ^1.0.0
• yoast/phpunit-polyfills: *

Suggests

• phpxmlrpc/jsonrpc: Needed for the SelfDocumentingJsonRpcServer class
• phpxmlrpc/jsxmlrpc: Used by the Ajax Server component. NB: better installed via NPM or used directly from CDN!

BSD-3-Clause

• webservices
• xmlrpc
• jsonrpc

README

Description

A collection of server addons that might be of use for development of xml-rpc (and json-rpc) based applications

Requirements

• PHP 5.4 or newer
• phpxmlrpc/phpxmlrpc 4.10.1 or newer

Copyright

Use of this software is subject to the terms in license.txt

Short list of included classes

JSRpcServer, JsJsonRpcServer, JSWrapper

Ajaxified version of the lib: support executing xml-rpc/json-rpc calls directly from the client browser after having defined them only once, in php.

SelfDocumentingServer, SelfDocumentingJsonRpcServer, ServerDocumentor, XmlrpcSmartyTemplate:

Subclasses of the xml-rpc/json-rpc servers and their helpers, to auto-generate HTML documentation of exposed services. Easy as a breeze to use, and extremely user-friendly.

ReverseProxy:

Subclass of the xml-rpc server that can act as remote (transparent) xml-rpc proxy to forward calls to a remote server. Can either forward any received call or probe remote server first for existing methods.

API documentation

Documentation can be found in the doc/ directory. NB the manual is quite outdated.

You are encouraged to look also at the code examples found in the demo/ directory.

Note: to reduce the size of the download, the demo files are not part of the default package installed with Composer. You can either check them out online at https://github.com/gggeek/phpxmlrpc-extras/tree/master/demo, download them as a separate tarball from https://github.com/gggeek/phpxmlrpc-extras/releases or make sure they are available locally by installing the library using Composer option --prefer-install=source. Whatever the method chosen, make sure that the demo folder is not directly accessible from the internet, i.e. it is not within the webserver root directory).

Running tests

The recommended way to run the library test suite is via the provided Docker containers. A handy shell script is available that simplifies usage of Docker.

The full sequence of operations is:

./tests/ci/vm.sh build
./tests/ci/vm.sh start
./tests/ci/vm.sh runtests
./tests/ci/vm.sh stop

# and, once you have finished all testing related work:
./tests/ci/vm.sh cleanup

By default, tests are run using php 8.1 in a Container based on Ubuntu 22 Jammy. You can change the version of PHP and Ubuntu in use by setting the environment variables PHP_VERSION and UBUNTU_VERSION before building the Container.

To generate the code-coverage report, run ./tests/ci/vm.sh runcoverage