I'm a PHP developer for www.thenetcircle.com I'm the developer of the FireSymfony Firebug extension and recently I published an article on Propel for php|architect.
The default behavior in symfony is that if an exception arises and is not handled then it will redirect the user to the error500.php page or show a stack trace. Even if is possible to override the error500.php page, we were in the need to provide custom messages to the user and also keep him [...]
For one of our projects we have load balanced database servers. We needed to have a way to reflect that in our project code which is written using symfony 1.0. The problem was that symfony 1.0 came by default with Propel 1.2, so our database code was targeted to that version of Propel -version 1.3 [...]