Xapian discuss - Feb 2007 - PHP searches - not figuring it out

Hello everyone..  I'm new to using Xapian.  I'm having some troubles
getting the php
querying to work.  Apologies, but I have a few different questions to ask and
I'm not
sure in which way to order them.

I'm using php 4.3.9.

For starters, does anyone know of some good example php scripts that will do
some more
advanced querying than is given in the sample "simplesearch.php"?

Through some testing and poking around it seems like the easiest solution to get
going
is to use the QueryParser class..  It seems like the default feature flags it
uses are
FLAG_BOOLEAN, FLAG_PHRASE and FLAG_LOVEHATE, but you have to specify if you want
to use
FLAG_BOOLEAN_ANY_CASE or FLAG_WILDCARD.  Is that correct?  So, the flags
I've listed as
the default ones all work well, except that all searches only work if I use the
stemmed
version of the words.  Like if I want to search for "discover", I need
to use "discov"
instead.  After finding out the stem I can do combinations with + and -, quotes,
AND and
OR and it works well.

So, my next questions are, why do I have to use the stemmed words instead of
their
originals when I use QueryParser?  Do I need to use the STEM_ALL strategy in
order for
the QueryParser to convert each word into its stem?

I can't get wildcard searching to work, and I'm assuming that's
because I need to set
FLAG_WILDCARD in the call to parse_query.  If that is the case, will I need to
set all
the previous default flags as well as this one?

And now my next problem, which is actually the root of much of my troubles and
why I
can't test all these ideas out for myself at the time..  This is a two part
problem.
First, I can't seem to get any of the enum constants to work in my php
calls, like
STEM_ALL and FLAG_WILDCARD when using QueryParser or OP_AND when using Query. 
When
using the Query class, I have tried using both OP_OR and Query_OP_OR, neither of
which
work.  When using both of these methods, I get the error "No matching
function for
overloaded 'new_XapianQuery'".  Here is the code for that:

version 1: $query = new XapianQuery(OP_OR, $terms);

version 2: $query = new XapianQuery(Query_OP_OR, $terms);

I also tried using the old non-OO method that is distributed in the
simplesearch.php
script, and that doesn't work at all.  I get the message "Call to
undefined function:
new_query()" for this line of code:

$query = new_Query(Query_OP_OR, $terms);

So, I'm assuming that v0.9.9 only supports the OO style and not the original
function
call style new_Query?  I can't get any of those functions to work, such as
new_Database,
new_Enquire and new_Stem...

I also tried applying the following patch and recompiling, and I got the same
error as
before:

http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/xapian-php5-query-ctor-overload-fix.patch

Thanks for any assistance..  Sorry for the long post, but all my issues seem all
kind of
related and I thought it necessary to explain in full...

- Matt

This works

$op_or = XapianQuery::OP_OR;
$query = new XapianQuery($op_or,$query1,$query2);

Andrey

some testing codes which is working

$db = new XapianDatabase("x/xxx_flint", DB_OPEN);
$op_or = XapianQuery::OP_OR;

$query1=new
XapianQuery(array("term1","term2","term3"));
<< forgot if
correct
$query2=new XapianQuery("heavy_term",10);

$query = new XapianQuery($op_or,$query1,$query2);

$enq = new XapianEnquire($db);

 $enq->set_query($query);
 $enq->set_docid_order("Enquire_ASCENDING");

$mset = $enq->get_mset($start, $num_result_per_page);
$mseti = $mset->begin();

while (!$mseti->equals($mset->end())) {
 $result[$i]['terms'] = join(" ",
$enq->get_matching_terms($mseti));
 $result[$i]['id'] = $mseti->get_docid();
 $result[$i]['percent'] =$mseti->get_percent();
 $odoc = $mseti->get_document();
 $result[$i]['data'] = $odoc->get_data();
 $mseti->next();
 $i++;
}

I just realized, I posted this with the wrong email address.  Not sure if it
made it
through the list, apologies if it's a duplicate message...
> This works
>
> $op_or = XapianQuery::OP_OR;
> $query = new XapianQuery($op_or,$query1,$query2);
>
> Andrey
Hi Andrey.  Thanks for the example code, I will file it away..

I tried the above also, and it doesn't work.  Here is my code:

$op_or = XapianQuery::OP_OR;

And the error:

parse error, unexpected ';', expecting '('

Is this because I'm using PHP 4 and not 5?  I thought 4 supported this
syntax..  I know
it does for method calls, but maybe not for static vars?  So otherwise what
could be the
problem?  Compilation?  I followed the installation instructions on the site. 
First
installed xapian-core-0.9.9, then xapian-bindings-0.9.9, then omega-0.9.9.  In
each
case, I ran "./configure; make; make install".  Everything went fine,
no warnings or
errors...

My compiler details:

[gatto@chi01-051-06 software]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions
--enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix

[gatto@chi01-051-06 software]$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions
--enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)

- Matt

did you try to run the smoketest.php comes with the php bindings?

it has php4 / php5 versions samples