Comments on: Using Configure in CakePHP applications

By: Hans Heidemann

Hans Heidemann — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:32:49 +0000

Thank you for this very helpful introduction into using configure. Since I do a lot of programming with CakePHP I was looking for a way to implement a configuration file without having trouble when updating CakePHP.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:06:14 +0000

Thanks for the quick reference, I’m always forgetting the syntax of this stuff I am also a coder with a very troubled mind this morning lol!

By: Tad

Tad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:44 +0000

@adnan: Use Configure::store(). It’s in the API docs.

By: mariano

mariano — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:53:09 +0000

Of course that wouldn’t save to the file. The Configure class is not about writing to the configuration file you parse from, but just to parse it. You’d have to extend the Configure class yourself, and make it so after a write it saves to the file.

By: adnan

adnan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:25:04 +0000

Configure::write(‘Settings’, array(
‘version’ => ’1.0.213′,
‘title’ => ‘My Application’
)
);

does not save the value to config file.. How can I update the config file using Configure::write ??

By: oes tsetnoc [Visitor]

oes tsetnoc [Visitor] — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0000

Does anyone know what I have to change for showing the thumbnail and just the excerpt with it??

By: Gediminas [Visitor]

Gediminas [Visitor] — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:58:00 +0000

Great job. But also need how to set config values from app_controller and so on

By: mariano.iglesias [Member]

mariano.iglesias [Member] — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:39:00 +0000

@mark: your “of course” statement pretty much answered your own question. If you are looking for static constants, then defines would work just fine (in fact, it would provide a small performance improvement.)

However, if you are looking for variables that you don’t want fixed (since they could be overriden at the application level by using Configure::write, or while loading another configuration file with Configure::load), then Configure is your best friend.

By: mark [Visitor]

mark [Visitor] — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:04:00 +0000

what would be the big difference between doing it that way and just defining constants – which are applicating-wide as well

(of course, if the content of the config constants are not supposed to be changed anymore)

By: Webmaster Mexico [Visitor]

Webmaster Mexico [Visitor] — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:14:00 +0000

I try to implement this example, but I lost the data into my app_model. I need to do something else?