Call to undefined function xmlrpc_encode_request()

[kostakondras]

Currently, I am reading a book called PHP Web 2.0 Mashups and I have stumbled across an error on the second chapter which deals with XML-RPC protocol. The book has the following code which it uses to demonstrate the XML-RPC encoding functionality of PHP with the xmlrpc_encode_request function:

 

<?php
$singleVar = "Hello!";
$requestMessage = xmlrpc_encode_request('theRemoteCall', $singleVar);
echo $requestMessage;
?>

 

However when I load this page up on my local testing platform nothing is displayed. Upon checking the PHP error log I am confronted with this:

 

[24-Jan-2011 07:56:40] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function xmlrpc_encode_request() in C:\wamp\www\jquery\collapsible.php on line 79

 

A couple of other points in relation to this:

 

1. I have the following lines in my PHP.ini file:

 

; Turn off normal error reporting and emit XML-RPC error XML
; http://php.net/xmlrpc-errors
;xmlrpc_errors = 0

; An XML-RPC faultCode
;xmlrpc_error_number = 0

 

Does this not mean that xmlrpc functions are all ready installed on my WAMP server? I have download XML-RPC for PHP from http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ (3.0.0 beta) and placed the files inside the extracted 'lib' folder into C:/PHP/includes and uncommented the PHP.ini line 'include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"'.

 

However still, after restarting WAMP and refreshing the page it is still issuing a fatal error in PHP error log.

 

Thank you for all your help in advance.

[trq]

Check phpinfo to see if xmlrpc is enabled (it likely isn't). If not, you will need to enable it within the extensions section of your php.ini then restart Apache.