another shot at datetime.iso8601:

- accept both simple and extended format from input

- output simple format, if
    + either the client is vbXMLRPC
    + or the client sends a HTTP-header "isoDate: simple"

phpgwapi/inc/class.xmlrpc_server.inc.php

@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
 	// contains useful functions for xmlrpc methods
 	class xmlrpc_server_shared
 	{
+		var $simpledate = False;
+
 		// convert a date-array or timestamp into a datetime.iso8601 string
 		function date2iso8601($date)
 		{
 			if (!is_array($date))
 			{
-				if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"vbXMLRPC"))
+				if($this->simpledate)
 				{
 					return date('Ymd\TH:i:s',$date);
 				}
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
 			}
 
 			$formatstring = "%04d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02d";
-			if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"vbXMLRPC"))
+			if($this->simpledate)
 			{
 				$formatstring = "%04d%02d%02dT%02d:%02d:%02d";
 			}
@@ -47,16 +49,28 @@
 		// convert a datetime.iso8601 string into a datearray or timestamp
 		function iso86012date($isodate,$timestamp=False)
 		{
-			if (($arr = split('[-:T]',$isodate)) && count($arr) == 6)
+			$arr = array();
+
+			if (ereg('^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})T([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})$',$isodate,$arr))
 			{
-				foreach(array('year','month','mday','hour','min','sec') as $n => $name)
+				// $isodate is simple ISO8601, remove the difference between split and ereg
-				{
+				array_shift($arr);
-					$date[$name] = (int)$arr[$n];
-				}
-				return $timestamp ? mktime($date['hour'],$date['min'],$date['sec'],
-					$date['month'],$date['mday'],$date['year']) : $date;
 			}
-			return False;
+			elseif (($arr = split('[-:T]',$isodate)) && count($arr) == 6)
+			{
+				// $isodate is extended ISO8601, do nothing
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				return False;
+			}
+
+			foreach(array('year','month','mday','hour','min','sec') as $n => $name)
+			{
+				$date[$name] = (int)$arr[$n];
+			}
+			return $timestamp ? mktime($date['hour'],$date['min'],$date['sec'],
+				$date['month'],$date['mday'],$date['year']) : $date;
 		}
 
 		// translate cat-ids to array with id-name pairs
@@ -142,6 +156,10 @@
 			}
 			return $cats;
 		}
+
+		function setSimpleDate($enable=True) {
+			$this->simpledate = $enable;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if(empty($GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['xmlrpc_type']))

xmlrpc.php

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?php
+	/**************************************************************************\
+	* eGroupWare xmlrpc server                                                 *
+	* http://www.egroupware.org                                                *
+	* This file written by Miles Lott <milos@groupwhere.org>                   *
+	* --------------------------------------------                             *
+	*  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it *
+	*  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the   *
+	*  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your  *
+	*  option) any later version.                                              *
+	\**************************************************************************/
+
+	/* $Id$ */
+	/* $Source$ */
+
+	$GLOBALS['phpgw_info'] = array();
+	$GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags'] = array(
+		'currentapp'            => 'login',
+		'noheader'              => True,
+		'disable_Template_class' => True
+	);
+	include('header.inc.php');
+
+	$server = CreateObject('phpgwapi.xmlrpc_server');
+	/* uncomment here if you want to show all of the testing functions for compatibility */
+	//include(PHPGW_API_INC . '/xmlrpc.interop.php');
+
+	/* Note: this command only available under Apache */
+	$headers = getallheaders();
+	//print_r($headers);
+	$isodate = $headers['isoDate'] ? $headers['isoDate'] : $headers['isodate'];
+	$isodate = ($isodate == 'simple' || strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"vbXMLRPC")) ? True : False;
+	$server->setSimpleDate($isodate);
+	$auth_header = $headers['Authorization'] ? $headers['Authorization'] : $headers['authorization'];
+
+	if(eregi('Basic *([^ ]*)',$auth_header,$auth))
+	{
+		list($sessionid,$kp3) = explode(':',base64_decode($auth[1]));
+		//echo "auth='$auth[1]', sessionid='$sessionid', kp3='$kp3'\n";
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		$sessionid = get_var('sessionid',array('COOKIE','GET'));
+		$kp3 = get_var('kp3',array('COOKIE','GET'));
+	}
+	$server->authed = $GLOBALS['phpgw']->session->verify($sessionid,$kp3);
+
+	$server->service($_SERVER['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']);
+?>