First of all I want to thank you for your Bisna ZendFramework+Doctrine integration library. Some time ago I’ve struggled with the same issue with ZendServer storing mysql socket in it’s own directory and did just the same as you suggest #ln -s …

But the problem was that I needed to do this each time I reboot (wich was getting a bit annoying), so a better approach may be to configure mysql to store the socket where it needs to be. This can be done in my.cnf with :

[mysqld]
socket= /tmp/mysql.sock #(or whatever)

Hope that was to the point of your post.
Dmitry.