make Python frontend default and PHP optional

test/bdd/environment.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ userconfig = {
     'SERVER_MODULE_PATH' : None,
     'TOKENIZER' : None, # Test with a custom tokenizer
     'STYLE' : 'extratags',
-    'API_ENGINE': 'php',
+    'API_ENGINE': 'falcon',
     'PHPCOV' : False, # set to output directory to enable code coverage
 }