In my current Symfony project I have a model called "Country" and a model called "Region". A Region always belongs to a Country, and this country will never change.

I've used Doctrine's admin generator to create the administration backend:

Symfony provides a nice feature called "embedded Forms" (sfForm::embedForm) to embed subforms into a parent form. This can be used to edit multiple records at the same time. So let's say you have a basic user table called 'sf_guard_user' and a profile table called 'user_profile', then you might follow this guide to merge these forms together:

If you're running a Drupal-based webpage which is completely restricted to authenticated users, Anonymous would get an "403 Access Denied" on every page he tries. But if you want your visitors to see a friendly login page (instead of just this error message and a small "login block") you might want to put the following code into your sites/default/setting.php: