PHP bindings improvement (PHP7 / Zend API)

Name	Nihal N
IRC nick	​nihaln
Timezone	UTC +0530
Work hours	10am - 5pm
Code repository	​https://github.com/nihal95/swig/tree/gsoc2017-php7-classes-via-c-api

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

PHP7 the new version, is considered to be a major release after the release of PHP5 in 2004. Currently PHP7 Binding for Xapian is based heavily on PHP5. The project is to use Zend C API to generate objects as the SWIG's PHP backend as opposed to the current stage, which wraps the C++ API a set of "flat" functions and a PHP file having the classes which call the flat functions.

Currently I'm working on the object creation for SWIG's PHP backend.

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