[Xapian-discuss] PHP bindings

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:51:55PM +0000, Gavin Gleason wrote:
> I had to switch a website we are running to a new server and so at the
> same time I updated xapian.  Has there been a big change in the php4
> bindings for xapian?

Yes, as of 0.9.7 we now generate OO wrappers for PHP.

Previously we used a SWIG option which generated an interface of flat
functions, which took the object as their first parameter.  This dates
back to when there was a bug in SWIG which stopped the OO wrappers from
working for Xapian, but this was fixed some time ago.

> After building the php4 bindings I'm unable to run the tests, even
> though the xapian library is loaded fine.

"make check" should work, but I failed to update the examples (I'm in
the process of doing so now).

> It seems to me that the stubs starting with new_ have been replaced.  I
> can get most things to work by replacing "new_" with "new Xapian"  Is
> this suppose to be the case?

There's a script which will automate most of the work required to update
for you - see this message:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/3561/focus=3562

Cheers,
    Olly