How to use locale in select query in Zend model - zend-framework

Question

On my administrator cms I can add newsitems and add a language code in column 'language' to the newsitem 'en' or 'nl'. In the bootstrapfile the language is set through:
public function _initLanguage()
{
$objSessionLanguage= new Zend_Session_Namespace('Zend_Lang');
$objLocale = new Zend_Locale();
$locale = new Zend_Locale();
$language = $locale->getLanguage();
$region = $locale->getRegion();
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Controller_Request_Http');
$request = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();
if($language=='nl' or $language=='en')
{
if($language=='nl')
{
$localFile = 'dutch.php';
$Locale = 'nl';
}else
{ {
$localFile = 'english.php';
$Locale = 'en';
}
$objSessionLanguage->localFile=$localFile;
$objSessionLanguage->Locale=$Locale;
}else
{
if(!isset($objSessionLanguage->localFile))
{
$localFile = 'english.php';
$Locale = 'en';
}else
{
$localFile = $objSessionLanguage->localFile;
$Locale =$objSessionLanguage->Locale;
}
}
$objTranslate = new Zend_Translate('array', APPLICATION_PATH .'/../language/english.php', 'en');
$objTranslate->addTranslation(APPLICATION_PATH .'/../language/'.$localFile, $Locale);
$objTranslate->setLocale($Locale);
Zend_Registry::set("Zend_Translate", $objTranslate);
}
To display newsitems in a NewsList I want to select the newsitems in the newsmodel depending on language.
<?php
class Admin_Model_News extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
{
protected $_modelName = 'news';
protected $_modelLabel = 'News';
protected $_name = 'news';
protected $_objGeneralSettingVar;
public function init()
{
parent::init();
$this->_objGeneralSettingVar = Zend_Registry::get( "objGeneralSettingVar");
}
public function fetchNewsList()
{
$objSelect = $this->select()->limit(5);
$objSelect->where ("language = '$language'");
$objSelect->order("news_date DESC");
return $this->fetchAll($objSelect)->toArray();
}
}
But with the above
$objSelect->where ("language = '$language'");
no newsitems is displayed. I am sure I am missing something but can not seem to find it. How can I use the language setting in selecting newsitems on language?

Answer 1

In Admin_Model_News you are using
$objSelect->where ("language = '$language'");
for your where clause, but $language has not been set anywhere, so you are querying Where language = null.
The function fetchNewsList should look like this:-
public function fetchNewsList($language)
{
$objSelect = $this->select()->limit(5);
$objSelect->where ("language = '$language'");
$objSelect->order("news_date DESC");
return $this->fetchAll($objSelect)->toArray();
}
You don't show how you are using Admin_Model_News, but it should be something like this:-
$news = new Admin_Model_News();
$newList = $news->fetchNewsList(howeverYouGetlanguage());