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I have noticed on alot asking us to help make releases which we are doing on a per request basis, we have noticed that some are missing the core requirements of having XML_RPC compiled in to make this work...

If you upload the rpc_users.php file and then display it in a browser and see this:

PHP Code:

Warning: require_once(XML/RPC.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /rpc_users.php on line 6

Fatal error:  require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'XML/RPC.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php/') in /*************/*************/*************/*************/www/rpc_users.php on line 6 


This means one thing, your PHP hasn't been complied in with XML_RPC, do note if you do a phpinfo() or view your PHP info make sure to verify that you have XML_RPC compiled in and it's showing.

If you have installed this on your forums, and go point your browser to the rpc_users.php and see this:

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

This means everything works perfectly

Thought I would post this in hopes to help others out with this issue, make sure you have XML_RPC installed to use this. It's the means of communication of the application to the forums/server.

Best regards,
BTR




Edited and added in:

If you have SSH you can verify if PHP Pear package XML_RPC is installed by checking:

> pear info xml_rpc
About pear.php.net/XML_RPC-1.5.1
================================
Release Type PEAR-style PHP-based Package
Name XML_RPC
Channel pear.php.net
Summary PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol
Description A PEAR-ified version of Useful Inc's XML-RPC for
PHP.

It has support for HTTP/HTTPS transport,
proxies and authentication.
Maintainers Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (lead)
Daniel Convissor <danielc@php.net> (lead)
Release Date 2006-10-28 13:06:09
Release Version 1.5.1 (stable)
API Version 1.5.0 (stable)
License PHP License
(http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt)
Release Notes * Turn passing payload through
mb_convert_encoding() off by default. Use new
XML_RPC_Message::setConvertPayloadEncoding()
and XML_RPC_Server::setConvertPayloadEncoding()
to turn it on. Bug 8632.
* Have XML_RPC_Value::scalarval() return FALSE
if value is not a scalar. Bug 8251.
Compatible with pear.php.net/PEAR
Versions >= 1.4.0a1, <= 1.4.9
Required Dependencies PHP version 4.2.0
PEAR installer version 1.4.0a1 or newer
Extension xml
package.xml version 2.0
Last Modified 2006-12-14 22:21
Previous Installed 1.4.7
Version
>

If it's not showing up, you can type in the following to be sure, in ours it shows installed so it's just simply ignoring the pear command:

> pear install xml_rpc
Ignoring installed package pear/xml_rpc
Nothing to install
>

To learn more about XML_RPC go here:

http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/

Hope this helps!