I've been using IETester for years but today I stumbled upon another browser package called BrowserSeal.BrowserPack that not only includes IE5.5/6/7/8, but also IE 1/2/3/4, Opera 8/9/10, Firefox 3/3.5 and Safari 3/4. Not a bad effort! Unlike IETester which executes all the browsers in a single tabbed window, BrowserSeal.BrowserPack is really just a collection of portable browser versions, so you are left running 10 windows instead of one. What I suggest is not installing the IE browsers in BrowserSeal.BrowserPack and continue using IETester instead.

PS: And if you want to run Firebug in your 10 new browsers you can bookmark the Firebug Lite bookmarklet and you get almost the same featureset as the native firefox extension gives you!

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OK here's one that might save you some time. I have a symfony admin gen site that works fine in all browsers but for some reason the rich calendar inputs failed to appear in IE7.

At first I thought this might have been the reason:

http://forum.symfony-project.org/index.php/m/58074/

But my calendar.js was already patched!

It turns out that you have an object in the DOM with an ID of "content" then you might find that any Dynarch calendars appear off-screen in IE7 only!

Rename your element to something else and it starts working. Don't ask me why, I can't find any reference to 'content' in the calendar script files. It's just one of those quiry things that makes you even more convinced that hating IE7 is completely justifiable!

It's still very early days, but Symfony 2 now has it's own site with some introductory material included. You can get the code and read about the framework - although there's no side-by-side comparison with symfony 1.4.

Now that versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 are all officially dead (and 1.3 being a transitional version from 1.2) it looks like 1.4 will be the last stepping stone before 2.0.

And what's so different about sf2? Well for starters it looks like every component of the symfony framework has been decoupled into what they are calling "bundles". Hmm, that sounds a bit like Zend doesn't it? Interestingly, the Zend framework is one of the core symfony 2 bundles! Whoop! I guess that means you could use the Zend MVC in place of the Symfony one, hypothetically…

Additionally, your app is a bundle, too - although I can't think of any real expedient here as I doubt your app will be of much use without the other bundles. Perhaps this allows you to easily unplug it from synfony 2 and move it somewhere else… in a parallel universe perhaps.

Ironically, the sf2 site also publishes some "hello world" benchmarks which, while impressive, are still subject to the criticisms thrown at earlier benchmark results where symfony did not do so well - hello world is not an application where a framework is useful etc. Anyway here are the stats:

For the "Hello World" application, the Symfony 2.0 is about:

* 20% faster than Solar 1.0.0beta3
* 60% faster than Lithium 0.6
* 75% faster than Yii 1.1.1
* 2 times faster than symfony 1.4.2
* 3.5 times faster than Zend 1.10
* 5.5 times faster than CakePHP 1.2.6
* 69 times faster than Flow3 1.0.0alpha7

Anyway, it doesn't look to me like symfony is getting easier, but it is definately getting better. I am particularly looking forward to the new debug toolbar:

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Had this strange problem ever since we upgraded a Symfony site from 1.0 to 1.2 - the emails being logged to the database were being mangled.

The problem turns out to be simply that the symfony 1.2 swToolkit plugin uses Zend Mail instead of phpMailer and Zend Mail spits out encoded text when you ask it for the email text or HTML contents.

So the simple fix is to wrap the data you get out of Zend Mail with the obscure quoted_printable_decode() function as shown here:

$message = quoted_printable_decode($zendEmail->getBodyHtml()->getContent());$text = quoted_printable_decode($zendEmail->getBodyText()->getContent());

There, that gets rid of all those =0D=0A characters everywhere!

Note that you would think you could avoid this simply by passing the line ending explicitly, but it does not work:

//this does *NOT* work!$message = $zendEmail->getBodyHtml()->getContent("\r\n");$text = $zendEmail->getBodyText()->getContent("\r\n");

I have battled postfix, qmail and sendmail for years - and my latest trouble involved sendmail trying to route emails to local (non-existant) users, even though the domains in question were not in the local domains config.

After running around in config circles for a couple of hours it turns out that if you set the server's hosts to include your domains, sendmail will assume local delivery for those domains.

That is even if you have sendmail configured not to (ie: in /etc/mail/local-host-names). It even ignores your virtusertable with explicit instructions to forward mail for those domains elsewhere.

Go figure. Hope this helps someone.