[Xapian-discuss] php bindings
John Wards
j.wards at sportnetwork.net
Tue Mar 7 13:42:53 GMT 2006
Oh the $next var in this line
$matches = Enquire_get_mset($enquire, $next,20);
should be 0 (zero) to get the first 20 (the next number)...set it to 20
and you'll get the next 20 results.
John
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:39 +0000, John Wards wrote:
> $database = new_Database("/path/to/your/db");
> $enquire = new_Enquire($database)
> $query_parser = new_queryparser();
> queryparser_set_database ($query_parser, $database);
> $query = queryparser_parse_query ($query_parser, "my query");
>
> Enquire_set_query($enquire, $query);
> $matches = Enquire_get_mset($enquire, $next,20);
> $mseti = MSet_begin($matches);
>
> while (! MSetIterator_equals($mseti, MSet_end($matches))) {
> echo Document_get_data(MSetIterator_get_document($mseti));
> MSetIterator_next($mseti);
> }
>
> Hows that to get you started...
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:02 +0530, durga bidaye wrote:
> > 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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