[Xapian-discuss] php bindings

[durga bidaye]

helo

i m not concerned with readin input frm a form actually. wat i dnt
understand in that example is that, nowhere are they "connectin" to a
database. i mean no commands fr connectin to the quartz DB( like we have
mysql_connect () to connect to a mysql DB). Is it because quartz is not a
proper kinda DB? Anyways does the absence of such a connecting statement
mean that there is no need to explicitly connect to the quartz DB thru the
server? and does it mean i cant just tweak the code a bit( for collectin
data frm form input fields) n use it fr searchin(simplesearch.php) right
away?

thanks.

On 3/7/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:19:53PM +0530, durga bidaye wrote:
> > I m a newbie here . i have used xapian with c++. now i wanna use php. i
> > installed the bindings and went thru the docs. the examples given are
> > command line ones. i wanna create an application where search string is
> > taken thru a form, from  a user. i wud like a example of a pgm which
> runs
> > in  the browser( not on the command line).
>
> We don't currently have such an example, but reading input from a form
> in PHP isn't at all Xapian specific and you can find thousands of
> examples of how to do it on the web, e.g.:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=php+form+input
>
> > n another doubt i have is whether all the classes that were
> > available fr C++ are of no use to php? or only a few classes had to be
> > modified fr bindings pakage? rest of them are available fr use by php?
> if
> > not then where is the description fr classes used in bindings?
>
> Did you read the PHP bindings documentation?  See
> php/docs/bindings.html in xapian-bindings.
>
> Pretty much all classes and methods are wrapped in PHP.  SWIG doesn't
> currently allow you to make a PHP subclass of a wrapped C++ class and
> pass it into C++, without which a couple of classes (e.g. MatchDecider)
> are pointless so not wrapped.  And we don't currently wrap the
> Xapian::Error classes (because PHP4 doesn't support exceptions).
>
> And sometimes a new class/method doesn't get wrapped right away, though
> I try to keep everything in step.  Generally Java and Perl lag more
> because it requires more work to add a wrapper for those.
>
> If you find a class or method which isn't wrapped and there's not
> documented reason, report it and we'll fix the situation.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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