[Xapian-discuss] Query::Query() in PHP, also QueryParser::prefixes

[James Aylett]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:23:14PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:

> > Just tried to do some query building in PHP but came up against a
> > brick wall.  The only constructor exposed by SWIG is the first one.
> > SWIG doesn't seem to support operator overloading of constructors.
> 
> If you use swig tricks (and I forget what they are now) to give the
> overloaded constructors different names, swig will still realise they are
> constructors and you can invoke them as class methods in php
> 
> $new_object=Class::renamed_constructor("blah");
> 
> and still get a new instance.
> 
> I made it support the default constructor as a class method that returns a
> new instance.

I haven't been able to get shadow classes to work at all ... do you
have some sample code?

J

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