SWIG 1.3.23 broke wrapping of optional arguments in PHP, and this is the
version that xapian-bindings 0.8.5 was generated with. I was aware of
the problem, but slipped up making the release - sorry!
If you want to build the PHP bindings, download this:
http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/0.8.5/xapian_wrap.cc.gz
Then gunzip it, and copy it over the shipped file:
xapian-bindings-0.8.5/php4/xapian_wrap.cc
The SWIG problem isn't fixed by 1.3.24, so I'm going to patch the
xapian-bindings build system to explicitly use SWIG 1.3.22 for PHP
bindings until this gets fixed.
Cheers,
Olly