Using XML-RPC with PHP

Hmm,  this looks interesting. Been lying in bed trying to get to sleep, but a lot of stuff going through my head and this annoying fly/mosquito have  prevented this.

This is another reason why WiFi and notebooks are great: I can surf from bed :-)

Anyway, have been looking at PEAR  a lot lately, but the documentation really blows goats. OK, I know I  can look at the source code, but what is the point in having online documentation if it doesn't actually document anything?

I don't expect you to be interested in this XML-RPC stuff, but I wanted the bookmark there so I can look at it in the morning.

So  why am I interested in it? I'm looking at writing a bot, and this will run from home. I wanted a way to speak to my website/database server without doing a plain connection to the db server, and I didn't want to mess around with POST or GET variables.

Using XML-RPC I may be able to exchange information with my web site/application in a neat and logical way.... and it looks less messy than SOAP. Oh, and it's something new to try out :-)

I guess it's even less likely I'll get to sleep now....