Re: Configuration

Hi,

Everyone, thanks a lot for all this information!

Given the fact that the id could change, I have changed tom's tutorial (thx!) a bit, making it able to function without the core.php editing and being more flexible. (When you add a new field in the database, it automatically get's added to the settings).

Before I show you what I have changed, I do have one more question. It seems to mee that the cache doesn't work. (Because a debug inside the block that checks if it's cached, get's always activated.)
Do you need to do configuring before caching works?
Anyway, I'll google this myself too.

This is what I have made from it:
<?php
class AppController extends Controller {
    function beforeFilter() {
        $this->pfSettings = $this->getSettings();
        $this->set('site_name', $this->pfSettings['name']);
        debug($this->pfSettings);
    }

   
    function getSettings()
    {
        //check to see if they are in the cache.
        if (!$cachedSettings = Cache::read('settings', 'long')) {
            //fetch the settings from the database.
            if($settings = $this->Setting->find('all')) {
               
                $configurations = array();
                foreach ($settings as $setting):
                    //$configurations = array_merge(array($setting['Setting']['key']=>$setting['Setting']['value']));
                    $configurations[$setting['Setting']['key']] = $setting['Setting']['value'];
                endforeach;
                Cache::write('settings', $configurations);
                return $configurations;
            }
            else
            {
                exit();
            }
        } else {
            //return the cached settings.
            return $cachedSettings;
        }
    }
}

The debug outputs:

Array (     [name] => WebsiteTite test.
    [description] => This is a litlle text about this photoboot photoblog website. )

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