Simon Willison's Weblog: ixr

Testing a new version of IXR

2005-05-23T02:58:39+00:00

Almost two years to the day since the last release, I've put together a new version of IXR, my PHP XML-RPC library. I haven't published it on the site just yet as I want to make sure any bugs are ironed out first, but you can grab a copy here:

IXR version 1.7 (beta)

It's mostly a bug fix release, although it also includes some changes made by the WordPress guys who have been maintaining their own fork since January. I've filed a bug asking them to take a look at the new version and maybe roll it in to their codebase.

If you use IXR for anything it would be great if you could run this new version through its paces. Send any bug reports to the usual address.

A big thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports and patches.

Tags: ixr, php, projects, web-services, xml-rpc

IXR 2.0

2003-11-27T03:38:41+00:00

Harry Fuecks has been hacking on my XML-RPC library, and has released a new version with some significant changes. His article on phpPatterns describes the changes and provides a link to download the updated code. He's made a bunch of interesting architectural changes which take advantage of a number of useful PEAR classes, including HTTP_Request which provides support for proxies and authentication, two frequently requested features.

I don't know when I'll get a chance to look at my version of the code again, since most of my current development work involves Python rather than PHP. If you're looking for an updated version of the library you would do well to check out Harry's enhancements.

Tags: ixr, projects, xml-rpc

Minor bug fix in IXR

2003-07-11T21:20:34+00:00

I've fixed a small but vital bug in the Incutio XML-RPC library. The library was causing errors when certain unicode characters were used in strings. This is because I was using PHP's htmlentities() function to encode strings before transmission. This escapes all of the characters that need escaping (<, >, &, " and ') but also escapes a number of other characters that have an HTML entity equivalent. The problem is that these additional entities are defined in HTML but not in XML, so XML parsers were choking on them when they tried to parse the resulting message. I've fixed the bug now by switching to using htmlspecialchars() instead. Thanks to the several people who reported this one (it took me a while to figure out) and to Marc Logemann who's blog entry finally helped me crack it.

Tags: ixr, xml-rpc

Cache-22

2002-10-28T11:41:03+00:00

I haven't been checking my referrer logs recently, so it was a nice surprise to see that Richard from Incutio has finished redesigning his blog and is now back to updating it frequently. He also has Pingback (implemented using IXR) and is pinging blo.gs when he updates.

Tags: ixr, pingback, richard-livsey

Pingback test

2002-09-06T01:19:28+00:00

Aquarionics is now PingBack enabled, and he implemented it using IXR. Yay!

Tags: aquarion, ixr, pingback

IXR forum

2002-09-05T23:57:26+00:00

The Incutio XML-RPC Library for PHP (IXR to its friends) now has a forum. The forum is powered by incForum, Incutio's very own forum software written by my colleague Tim.

Tags: ixr, xml-rpc

New version of IXR

2002-09-04T20:52:57+00:00

Announcing beta 1.5 of IXR, the Incutio XML-PRC Library for PHP. The library has undergone a complete restructuring and has a much cleaner design as a result. It also has a huge stack of new features, including:

Built in support for system.getCapabilities
Built in support for system.listMethods
system.methodSignature and system.methodHelp are supported in an extension class
system.multicall is implemented in both the server and extended client classes
Follows the Specification for Fault Code Interoperability
Documentation - lots of it!

Enjoy! Feedback and bug reports to the usual place.

Tags: ixr, php, projects, xml-rpc

New IXR soon

2002-09-04T12:05:36+00:00

I was up most of the night working on a new version of my XML-RPC library (newly named IXR, for Incutio XML-RPC). I should have it ready for release some time today - it implements most of the extensions I've linked to over the past few days and has a much cleaner object structure than the first version, while maintaining the ability to implement a server or client in as little code as possible.

While I was working with it I came up with an idea for a wyay of transferring objects over XML-RPC, which I've written up and posted to the XML-RPC mailing list. Take a look and tell me what you think :)

Tags: ixr, xml-rpc