Xapian discuss - Feb 2007 - PHP bindings

Hi everyone,

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

Gavin

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