Execute an XML remote procedural call. This is private function; call xmlrpc() in common.inc instead of this function.

Return value

A $xmlrpc_message object if the call succeeded; FALSE if the call failed

File

drupal-6.x/includes/xmlrpc.inc, line 426

Drupal XML-RPC library. Based on the IXR - The Incutio XML-RPC Library - (c) Incutio Ltd 2002-2005 Version 1.7 (beta) - Simon Willison, 23rd May 2005 Site: http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/ Manual: http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/manual.php This…

Code

function _xmlrpc() {
  $args = func_get_args();
  $url = array_shift($args);
  xmlrpc_clear_error();
  if (is_array($args[0])) {
    $method = 'system.multicall';
    $multicall_args = array();
    foreach ($args[0] as $call) {
      $multicall_args[] = array('methodName' => array_shift($call), 'params' => $call);
    }
    $args = array($multicall_args);
  }
  else {
    $method = array_shift($args);
  }
  $xmlrpc_request = xmlrpc_request($method, $args);
  $result = drupal_http_request($url, array("Content-Type" => "text/xml"), 'POST', $xmlrpc_request->xml);
  if ($result->code != 200) {
    xmlrpc_error($result->code, $result->error);
    return FALSE;
  }
  $message = xmlrpc_message($result->data);
  // Now parse what we've got back
  if (!xmlrpc_message_parse($message)) {
    // XML error
    xmlrpc_error(-32700, t('Parse error. Not well formed'));
    return FALSE;
  }
  // Is the message a fault?
  if ($message->messagetype == 'fault') {
    xmlrpc_error($message->fault_code, $message->fault_string);
    return FALSE;
  }
  // Message must be OK
  return $message->params[0];
}