August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
703 pages
16h 10m
English
Drupal "plays well with others." That is, if there's an open standard out there, chances are that Drupal supports it either natively or through a contributed module. XML-RPC is no exception; Drupal supports it natively. In this chapter, you'll learn how to take advantage of Drupal's ability both to send and receive XML-RPC calls.
A remote procedure call is when one program asks another program to execute a function. XML-RPC is a standard for remote procedure calls where the call is encoded with XML and sent over HTTP. The XML-RPC protocol was created by Dave Winer of UserLand Software in collaboration with Microsoft. It's specifically targeted at distributed web-based systems talking to each other, as when ...
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