Re: [Tiki-devel] Port XML/RPC code to a maintained equivalent.

Hi Domeshow

Thanks for that, sounds good although don't have time to dig very deeply into it just now, but i think InterTiki clients use XMP/RPC to communicate with the server, so we'll know pretty quickly if it breaks! :)

I'm guessing this will be for tiki 27+ as we're branching 26.x any day now, so maybe postpone this project for a little while until we get 26.x in good shape and aren't needing to merge/cherry pick so much into master?

Thanks

jonny



> On 30 May 2023, at 13:36, Domeshow Emmanuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> We are forced to replace the pear/xml_rpc package because the limitations become visible in tiki26 which already uses php8.1 as the minimum version of PHP because it is not maintained and does not support this new version of PHP.
> XML RPC support in tiki (it's more than one feature) isn't something we want to drop. While the status of the various features is uncertain, interacting with other generic systems is at the core of what tiki does, and XML RPC is a protocol that is still used in the wild.
> 
> Pear XML_RPC (the original) is not even on Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/pear/xml_rpc
> https://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC
> https://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC2
> https://github.com/pear/XML_RPC/tree/tags/RELEASE_1_5_5
> https://github.com/pear/XML_RPC2
> 
> There are modern options here https://packagist.org/?query=xml%20RPC and after much analysis I chose the package gggeek/phpxmlrpc for many reasons.
> gggeek/phpxmlrpc is a PHP library for building XML-RPC clients and servers that supports PHP 5.4 and above.
> 
> Here are the reasons I found that led me to choose it:
> - It supports php8
> - It has ease of installation using Composer
> - It has ease of use: gggeek/phpxmlrpc and PHP's native XML-RPC functions have a higher level API that abstracts the details of XML-RPC encoding and decoding 
> - It is well documented: https://github.com/gggeek/phpxmlrpc/blob/master/doc/manual/phpxmlrpc_manual.adoc
> - It has similarity to pear/xml_rpc which is used for now
> - It offers more features: gggeek/phpxmlrpc has more features than pear/XML_RPC, such as HTTP 1.1 support, multicall, cookies, compression, SSL, proxies, etc. 
> - And finally, it is updated regularly. Last commit is 3 months ago.
> By this mail please help me in the choice knowing that I tested and I am convinced of the latter.
> Thanks!
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