<?php
/**
 * Helper function for the terminally lazy.
 *
 * @copyright (c) 2006-2015 G. Giunta
 * @license code licensed under the BSD License: see file license.txt
 */

/**
 * Takes a client object, a remote method name, and a variable numbers of
 * php values, and calls the method with the supplied parameters. The
 * parameters are native php values and the result is an xmlrpcresp object.
 *
 * Notes:
 * The function encodes the received parameters using php_xmlrpc_encode:
 * the limitations of automatic encoding apply to this function too);
 *
 * the type of the value returned by the function can be changed setting
 * beforehand the 'return_type' member of the client object to 'phpvals' -
 * see the manual for more details about this capability).
 *
 *
 * @author Toth Istvan
 *
 * @param xmlrpc_client client object, properly set up to connect to server
 * @param string remote function name
 * @param mixed $parameter1
 * @param mixed $parameter2
 * @param mixed $parameter3 ...
 *
 * @return xmlrpcresp or false on error
 */
function xmlrpccall_simple()
{
    if (func_num_args() < 2) {
        // Incorrect
        return false;
    } else {
        $varargs = func_get_args();
        $client = array_shift($varargs);
        $remote_function_name = array_shift($varargs);
        if (!is_a($client, 'xmlrpc_client') || !is_string($remote_function_name)) {
            return false;
        }

        $xmlrpcval_array = array();
        foreach ($varargs as $parameter) {
            $xmlrpcval_array[] = php_xmlrpc_encode($parameter);
        }

        return $client->send(new xmlrpcmsg($remote_function_name, $xmlrpcval_array));
    }
}