diff --git a/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
index cca24ba..cbf8fe1 100644
--- a/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
+++ b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class views_php_handler_sort extends views_handler_sort {
    */
   function option_definition() {
     $options = parent::option_definition();
+    $options['use_normalized_rows'] = array('default' => TRUE);
     $options['use_php_setup'] = array('default' => FALSE);
     $options['php_setup'] = array('default' => '');
     $options['php_sort'] = array('default' => '');
@@ -26,6 +27,16 @@ class views_php_handler_sort extends views_handler_sort {
   function options_form(&$form, &$form_state) {
     parent::options_form($form, $form_state);
 
+    // use normalized rows
+    $form += array(
+      'use_normalized_rows' => array(
+      '#type' => 'checkbox',
+      '#title' => t('Use normalized rows'),
+      '#description' => t('If checked, the $row1 and $row2 variables avaialble on the Sort code are normalized. Otherwise the rows are passed through exactly as they appears in $view->result. This is useful when the format isn\'t set to fields or in a search index view.'),
+      '#default_value' => $this->options['use_normalized_rows'],
+      ),
+    );
+
     $form += views_php_form_element($this,
       array('use_php_setup', t('Use setup code'), t('If checked, you can provide PHP code to be run once right before execution of the view. This may be useful to define functions to be re-used in the value and/or output code.')),
       array('php_setup', t('Setup code'), t('Code to run right before execution of the view.'), FALSE),
@@ -83,12 +94,18 @@ class views_php_handler_sort extends views_handler_sort {
   function php_sort($row1, $row2) {
     $factor = strtoupper($this->options['order']) == 'ASC' ? 1 : -1;
     $function = $this->php_sort_function;
-    foreach (array('row1' => 'normalized_row1', 'row2' => 'normalized_row2') as $name => $normalized_name) {
-      $$normalized_name = new stdClass;
-      foreach ($this->view->display_handler->get_handlers('field') as $field => $handler) {
-        $$normalized_name->$field = isset($$name->{$handler->field_alias}) ? $$name->{$handler->field_alias} : NULL;
+    if ($this->options['use_normalized_rows']) {
+      foreach (array('row1' => 'normalized_row1', 'row2' => 'normalized_row2') as $name => $normalized_name) {
+        $$normalized_name = new stdClass;
+        foreach ($this->view->display_handler->get_handlers('field') as $field => $handler) {
+          $$normalized_name->$field = isset($$name->{$handler->field_alias}) ? $$name->{$handler->field_alias} : NULL;
+        }
       }
     }
+    else {
+      $normalized_row1 = $row1;
+      $normalized_row2 = $row2;
+    }
     $result = (int)$function($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
     return $factor * $result;
   }
diff --git a/views_php.info b/views_php.info
index dd55cdb..933ceda 100644
--- a/views_php.info
+++ b/views_php.info
@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ files[] = plugins/views/views_php_plugin_cache.inc
 files[] = plugins/views/views_php_plugin_pager.inc
 files[] = plugins/views/views_php_plugin_query.inc
 files[] = plugins/views/views_php_plugin_wrapper.inc
+
+
+; Information added by drush on 2014-04-09
+version = "7.x-1.0-alpha1+0-dev"
+core = "7.x"
+project = "views_php"
+datestamp = "1397058671"
+