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Upgrade to Symfony 1.2: Have your layouts stopped working?

I had a Symfony 1.0 app and I finally decided to make the leap to 1.2. Lo and behold, this mysterious error cropped up:
Notice: Undefined variable: site in /path/to/myproject/apps/site/templates/layout.php on line 10
If you’re upgrading from 1.0, you may suddenly notice that you get these “undefined variable” errors. That’s because global variables are deprecated in [...]

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Symfony, Doctrine, preSave and postSave

My new Symfony app calls a remote web service as part of the user creation process. Since this is intimately linked with the model (I want this behavior executed for my fixtures, too) it makes no sense to call the web service from the controller.
Like Ruby on Rails, Doctrine has some handy built-in hooks to [...]

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Subdomains & Sharing Now Enabled for cvPow.com

You can now access your CV/tag cloud at YOU.cvpow.com, and share links to your resume with dozens of social networks. Mine is at mariya.cvpow.com.
I’m looking for feedback: how would YOU like to use your CV data? Export it as an RSS feed? Export to Word so you can send it to old-fashioned headhunters? If I [...]

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