Does cakephp have a built-in means of storing “settings” for an app that a user can easily change?
For example: setting up a contact email or phone number that appears in a footer and elsewhere in a site that a non-developer can easily update. Or some other global configuration options …
…data that can be queried at any time on any page (regardless of model or controller… or even if it’s just a display page with no controller at all). I’d prefer to avoid having to load a settings model in every single controller… and even that doesn’t help me for non-controller based pages. Maybe it could be queried in app_controller…
Or would it be better performance-wise to store this in one of the cache files?
Any other ideas?