I get error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodResponse>
<fault>
 <value>
  <struct>
   <member>
    <name>faultString</name>
    <value>
     <string>server error. method not found.</string>

    </value>
   </member>
   <member>
    <name>faultCode</name>
    <value>
     <int>-32601</int>
    </value>
   </member>

  </struct>
 </value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>




From:


/* servertest.php */
<?php
function lifecycle($method, $params) {
/* $method = 'cycle', $params = (array of) request parameter(s); $data is also passed from xmlrpc_server_call_method, if we had any data to pass */
    switch($params[0]) {
        case 'egg':
            $reply = 'All eggs will be birds one day.';
        break;
        default:
            $reply = 'That must have been an otheregg';
    }
    return $reply;
}

$server = xmlrpc_server_create();

/* register the 'external' name and then the 'internal' name */
xmlrpc_server_register_method($server, "cycle", "lifecycle");

$request = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; // no you don't need 'always on', and no $_POST doesn't work.

/* the parameters here are 'server, xml-string and user data'.  There's supposed to be an optional 'output options' array too, but I can't get it working :( hence header() call */
$response = xmlrpc_server_call_method($server, $request, null);
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print $response;

xmlrpc_server_destroy($server);
?>