PHP 8.0 compatibility: XMLRPC

[Yuubari]

XMLRPC is no longer bundled with PHP starting with 8.0: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unbundle_xmlprc — are there any plans to maybe migrate to something like https://github.com/lstrojny/fxmlrpc or drop XMLRPC altogether?

[DavidGoodwin]

Ideally we'd drop XMLRPC and move to something REST-ish ... as at least that'd be more understood/easier to debug/less magical/remove a dependency on ZF1....

[DavidGoodwin]

(xmlrpc is only an optional dependency really ...)

[bnchdan]

If you don't have Zend installed ( for the client-side), you can send a simple XML request with specific arguments.
For login, you need to send an xml as follow :

Take a look at this: https://github.com/bnchdan/xmlrpc_client

[DavidGoodwin]

@bnchdan thanks for the link - you'd need to call something boring like htmlspecialchars(..) on anything you embed into the XML like how you are - e.g. if my password was "123<456" https://github.com/bnchdan/xmlrpc_client/blob/4875ae1124289d9dd0b2928be1c04bfc1c0aa3d2/changepassword.php#L29 it would break the generated XML

a better approach would be to use SimpleXML or is it libxml ( ? ) to create the XML document, as that should take care of escaping stuff.

I think you should look at e.g. https://github.com/milo/xml-rpc

[DavidGoodwin]

fyi, i see e.g. the sury.org PHP variant has an xmlrpc extension ... so it kind of looks like xmlrpc is still possible?