Best way to store site configuration parameters

Posted: 01 July 2008 05:27 AM

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Hi all

What are the best ways of storing site parameters?
I want super users of the site to be able to update configuration parameters. These parameters, such as membership price, RSS feed URL, etc. will then be used throughout the site.
There will only every be 1 instance of the configuration parameters.

I have thought of the following:
1. A weblog with only 1 instance.
2. The Fresh Variables module. Although this doesn’t seem IE compatible.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Iceberg Creative

Posted: 02 July 2008 09:39 AM

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Anyone?
I read in the boyink eBook that using a custom weblog is a good idea.
Can anyone else offer any input?

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Ingmar Greil

Posted: 02 July 2008 01:16 PM

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A global variable of sorts, either a path.php or a regular “global” variable. Or, yes, a “fresh” variable—it is true that you cannot set them with EE, I think, but that is a one time matter. This won’t matter for users of the site, only for the administrator setting them in the backend.

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