helo ppl thanks everybody fr replyin to my queries. but it seems the problem was somthin unrelated to xapian. i was not able to install php bindings because i didnt have the development package of php installed on my machine. after doin that, i was able to install as well as the run php examples.thanksagain doubtfire4008@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/attachments/20060319/a4bf1d73/attachment.htm