[phpxmlrpc-devel] introduction

[Andres S. <dil...@mp...>]

Edd mentioned I should introduce myself to the list, so here goes.  I
work for Voxel, and have taken over the project that Justin Miller
previously worked on.  We use xmlrpc quite extensively in a production
environment.  I requested cvs write access in order to add some sanity
checks to the code; we see a bit too many php errors, messing up xml
responses.  For example, one of the mistakes I accidentally made was
passing xmlrpcval's constructor an associative array, w/ a type of
"array"; it should've been "struct".  Expected behavior would've been to
have some sort of "type mismatch" error (or even just detect the type
automatically); instead, there's a for loop inside one of the serialize
functions that iterates through the array via loop counter, so
uninitialized variables end up being processed as arrays.  My goal is to
improve usability for the programmer; instead of having to trace through
code every time there's a problem, give a reasonable error message
describing incorrect use of the API.

BTW, I notice the code in CVS is indented consistently; I thank whoever
did that. :)


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