Matthew Weir O'Phinney has posted happily about an upcoming release of the popular PHP framework from Zend - Zend Framework version 1.5:

As many know, Zend Framework 1.5.0 is almost ready for release... heck, it might even be released by the time you read this. There are a ton of new features worth looking into, but I'll list some of my own favorites here - the ones I've been either working on or using.

The list of updates for the release includes:

• Zend_Layout and Zend_View enhancements
• Zend_Form
• Zend_Search_Lucene
• Zend_Db_Table Improvements
• Context Switching and REST

If you want to get things prepared on your application, you can always download the latest release candidate (RC 3) of 1.5.0 and get to testing.

Lee Blue has posted a handy tip for users of the Zend Framework, specifically when sorting the results from a query to tables linked in a Zend_Db_Table setup.

So you figured out how to define the relationships between your Zend_Db_Tables and you have issued a call to findDependentRowset(). You get your Rowset back but you need to sort the results by one of the columns in the dependent table. How do you do that?

Unfortunately, he's found out that you just simply can't - well, not without a custom function (until the 1.5 release of the framework rolls around). He shows his table set up and some sample database classes to relate to the tables (and link between them). The magic comes in with his DU_Utils class that takes in the data and sorts it based on the given column name in the given direction.