XML-RPC and Art
Went to college today. I was disappointed. We didn’t do anything on our T-Shirt briefs, which is a shame because we only have two weeks left to do it! On the bright side though, I now have a really nice collection on textured paper which I am going to use for the first zaFr site theme/styles.
Managed to catch the bus at the time I intended for once, so that was great. And as I got back into town I decided to go to WHSmiths to by the new Web Designer magazine that came out today, unfortunately, they didn’t have it in stock. I suppose that’s what you get for expecting them to have it the day it is released, forgot they actually have to be delivered too! Which is good in a way… If I wait till monday, I can use those discount vouchers they give on every purchase. 10% off all magazines! Woo!
So I bought the Computer Arts magazine instead. I know, money just burns a hole in my pocket, but that magazine was good last month, so I thought I would buy it again (and I bought the .net magazine two days ago too… I really should control my spending!). I really should get magazine subscriptions, rather than having to remember to buy them, I could ask for that for Christmas!
Now on to the other topic of this post. XML-RPC. I was looking on Wikipedia for XML-RPC, just because I felt like it and had nothing better to be doing. Because I am a PHP freak I know that there is an extension for PHP for it. But I never like using extensions (apart from database extensions, they’re kind of a necessity!) because if you move your code to another server, you have no garantee that the new server will have them installed. Therefore your code sucks. Simple as that.
However, I vaguely remember (vividly remember because I copied a lot of concepts and code) from CodeIgniter that they had a XML-RPC Class/Library which didn’t require the PHP Extension!
Anyway, I found two libraries (other than the one I stole was inspired by from CodeIgniter):
I haven’t tried any of them yet, because to be honest I have no use for them yet. I haven’t even made my own site yet! Or a design, or a stable navigation… or a plan!
Although I did see a load of brilliant minimalistic designs in a post on Smashing Magazine. That had to be mentioned, it was a great post!
Cheers, mniz.