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Guidance setting global variables from database.

Hi,

I am new to OOP and also Phalcon. I am creating a multi site website, When a user accesses the site I need to get settings based on there url from the database (eg contact details etc). What would be the best way to initiatiate this (ie. where should I trigger this request eg. config.php? , and how should I trigger the request upon the user accessing the site eg should i use a function initialize?), also would it be best to store these settings in a session, and finally I want this script to be triggered once only when the user accesses the site and not at every page request what would be recommened to achieve this?

Thanks



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If the data doesn't change frequently, a configuration file would be better. If it does change frequently, you can store it in database, but use a caching layer to avoid querying the DB on every request.