Xapian discuss - Nov 2007 - Problems with xapian php bindings in osx

Hello,

I am attempting to run the smoketest.php file from my devserver and  
am getting nothing but errors.  It looks like it did not install  
correctly.  Yesterday I compiled the source on os x and it appeared  
to install just fine, but now it is not working at all.  I tried to  
replace the location of the xapian.php file with a hardcoded located  
and got a different set of errors.  Here are the errors with the  
original smoketest.php

Warning: include(php5/xapian.php) [function.include]: failed to open  
stream: No such file or directory in /Users/mttuser/Sites/IEOC/ 
smoketest.php on line 25

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'php5/ 
xapian.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php')
in /Users/mttuser/Sites/IEOC/smoketest.php on line 25

Fatal error: Class 'Xapian' not found in /Users/mttuser/Sites/IEOC/ 
smoketest5.php on line 23



Here are the errors that I get when I point to the location of  
xapian.php:

Warning: dl() [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/ 
local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xapian.so' -  
(null) in /usr/local/php5/xapian.php on line 23

Fatal error: Class 'Xapian' not found in /Users/mttuser/Sites/IEOC/ 
smoketest5.php on line 23




If i move the xapian.so file into the no-debug-non-zts-20060613  
directory i get yet more errors.  The file is taken from /usr/lib/php/ 
extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/xapian.so

Warning: dl() [function.dl]: |?B?: Unable to initialize module  
Module compiled with module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=0  
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0 These  
options need to match in /usr/local/php5/xapian.php on line 23

Fatal error: Class 'Xapian' not found in /Users/mttuser/Sites/IEOC/ 
smoketest5.php on line 23

If anyone has any idea of what is going on help would be greatly  
appreciated.

-Frank


Frank Claycomb
Software Developer
MountainTop Technologies
814-536-7676

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:25:00AM -0500, Frank Claycomb
wrote:
> I am attempting to run the smoketest.php file from my devserver and  
> am getting nothing but errors.  It looks like it did not install  
> correctly.  Yesterday I compiled the source on os x and it appeared  
> to install just fine, but now it is not working at all.  I tried to  
> replace the location of the xapian.php file with a hardcoded located  
> and got a different set of errors.  Here are the errors with the  
> original smoketest.php
How are you running smoketest.php?  The expected way is by running
"make check" in the source tree, but it sounds like you're trying
to install smoketest.php.
> If i move the xapian.so file into the no-debug-non-zts-20060613  
> directory i get yet more errors.  The file is taken from /usr/lib/php/ 
> extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/xapian.so
> 
> Warning: dl() [function.dl]: |?B?: Unable to initialize module  
> Module compiled with module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=0  
> PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0 These  
> options need to match in /usr/local/php5/xapian.php on line 23
Based on the API version number "20020429", you've built your
module for
PHP4, which means it just isn't going to work with PHP5.

Start from a clean xapian-bindings source tree and configure like so:

    ./configure PHP_CONFIG=php-config5

If you don't have "php-config5", you may need to install a
"PHP5
development" package or similar to get it, or it might be
"php-config"
but with a different path.  I'm not familiar with OS X so I don't know
how this works there I'm afraid.

Cheers,
    Olly

Well what I want to do is search basically an entire mysql database  
(making a quick search).  People in #php on freenode suggested xapian  
to me.  Is xapian really what I want to use for this?  I used to  
think it was but now I am not so sure.  I am finding conflicting  
definitions of what xapian is and does.  Also I read that php  
documentation that you pointed me to, it does not really tell me  
anything pertinent to programming, just how to get it to work.  I am  
having some problems finding the documentation that explains now to  
code for xapian (such as the api in the php bindings).

thanks for all of your help so far,

-Frank


Frank Claycomb
Software Developer
MountainTop Technologies
814-536-7676

When you get the omega source downloaded take a look at the dbi2omega 
file in the xapian-omega-1.0.x directory.  It's a perl script to 
generate an input file for scriptindex.  It might not do exactly what 
you want, but it might give you a hint as to what you might need to do.  
Perhaps you could start with that and exand it as necessary.

You would then have to come up with an index file as described in 
docs/scriptindex.txt. 

Jim.