Version 0.9.0 of the Apache Solr extension has just been released.

The Apache Solr extension is an extremely fast, light-weight, feature-rich library that allows PHP developers to communicate easily and efficiently with Apache Solr server instances using an object-oriented API.

It effectively simplifies the process of interacting with Apache Solr using PHP.

The Zend Framework provides an implementation of the Lucene search engine that can be used for full-text search. And there’s also Sphinx, the standalone (and very fast) full-text indexer for MySQL, PostgreSQL and XML content. This article looks at these two implementations, comparing and contrasting them and illustrating how they can be used to add full-text search to an application.

Cal Evans takes another romp through the Zend Framework mailing list rounding up the events of the past week.

bq. Boy-howdy what a week in Frameworkland. So many things to talk about that I can’t even begin to list them all in this teaser. I guess you’ll have to read the article to get the details.