On Feb 8, 2008, at 3:33 PM, johnnyice wrote:

>
> this may be more of a design/convention question, but I was curious as
> to when other bakers decide to add a configuration variable to Cake's
> Configure over DEFINE (of course both would probably be done in /
> config/core.php)

Depends on whether or not you want it to be constant (unchangeable),  
or something you can play with during a request.

> I have a couple default values I'd like to set.  For example I want to
> set a date field in the db to the current GMT time or I have an
> initial state for user activity that only changes once they login.
>
> Say the default state for user activity is 5 (some arbitrary num).
> Would you put that in config, define, or database?
> What about a default date (say gmnow() that you can't use as a default
> in the db)

Depends how much it'll change and when.

fwiw,

John

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