From what I can see, propel.ini is what drives the connection for things such as ‘propel-build-model’ and ‘propel-insert-sql’ giving you the need to have one connection defined in that file for the action you are taking. The only thing that I can see that is confusing this issue is in propel.ini we have to set things such as ‘propel.project’ and ‘propel.database’ but I do not believe that directly means a connection in databases.yml or schema.yml called ‘propel’ it’s just that it’s settings for propel to use.
Example:

## from Schema.yml
data_connection_master:
status:
_attributes: { phpName: my_status, package: lib.model.my_administrator }
code: { type: integer, required: true, primaryKey: true }
type: { type: varchar, size: 50, required: true, primaryKey: true }
created: { type: timestamp }
modified: { type: timestamp }
…….
##from databases.yml
all:
data_connection_master:
class: sfPropelDatabase
param:
phptype: mysql # Database vendor
hostspec: localhost
database: data_connection_master
username: symfonyuser
password: symfonyuser
port: 3306
encoding: utf8 # Default charset for table creation
persistent: true # Use persistent connections
…….
#from propel.ini
propel.database = mysql
propel.database.createUrl = mysql://symfonyuser:symfonyuser@localhost:3306/
propel.database.url = mysql://symfonyuser:symfonyuser@localhost:3306/data_connection_master

Since things work fine for me without having a connection called ‘propel’ I’m pretty sure I’m right. I’d appreciate hearing the perspective and experience of someone else on this.

The fact was that only symfony was powerful enough out of the box to put into production. Its “view” layer was the most powerful of all 3 frameworks (at least without heavy modifications) and it helped us speed up our new projects (which had to use Smarty templating).

Great stuff, I really like symfony

I think the sess_data field should rather be of type “datetime” instead of “int”.

When using an int, the value was always “2008″. After I corrected it to a “datetime”, sf now stores values like “2008-06-30 10:43:25″ and updates them for each request, which is how it should be.

Sebastian

Cheers

Franz