Articles tagged with "conf"

ConfComponent DB based configuration

By Othman ouahbi
DB based configuration, allows you to set and retrieve values organized into conf categories. Now with caching.
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ConfComponent DB based configuration Tutorial

By Othman ouahbi
ConfComponent allows you to store your configuration into the db, set and retrieve values organized into categories very easily.Now with caching.

changelog
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0.9.1:
- Added the ability to call the component in beforeFilter().
0.9:
- Added file caching to minimize db hits.
- Added default value for get()
- Changed the way you set and get values to be more cake-ish
- Introducing $getEmpty
- Introducing some options to deal with boolean values stored as 'true' and 'false'.
- Added setCat to set a category of configs at once
- Added setBatch to save a set of categories with their configs at once
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Simply storing config values in the DB

By Cameron Perry
There are many situations in web apps where site-wide configurations need to be accessible to users through admin interfaces, rather than configuration files residing on the server. It is a practical method of storing configuration values that may need changing from time to time, but without access to the core configuration file.
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