Hey, sure but I wouldn't store permission data or anything else in there what defines a users access to the system itself. For other stuff it would be ok I guess.
One thing would be very interesting: is there any way to write to a session of a user from within the app when the Session ID is known? I guess not... On 11 Nov., 19:23, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit <[email protected]> wrote: > Ever heard of a session? > > Jeremy Burns > Class Outfit > > http://www.classoutfit.com > > On 11 Nov 2011, at 15:50, DigitalDude wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I was wondering if there is a chance to speed things up a little bit > > by improving some functions in my app. > > > One question that comes to mind is for example a sidebar. Currently, I > > run some finds and gather some data for the sidebar (latest news, > > status of the user, number of notifications etc) and set them to the > > view from within the app_controller's before filter/render function. > > > So what I'm interested in is a technique to get this data when the > > user logs in, save them somewhere statically and maybe update this > > data ONLY when changes are made to the model/database. > > > Does anyone of you know ANY way to accomplish this with cake? I think > > it is a bit redundant to constantly run these queries everytime the > > app_controller is called and it could save a lot of time when those > > queries could be cached or something like that. > > > Only thing important is that when changes happen there should be a way > > to then "manually" update those static info of the user so it does not > > take a re-login to update the data. > > > Any ideas? > > > Regards, > > > DD > > > -- > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video > > Tutorialshttp://tv.cakephp.org > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
