Question

i’m realizing an admin panel and i need to toggle an option on/off. Everything works fine, except for the Configure::write() method that looks like if it’s not permanent. Here is the ajax handler.

        case ("toggle_button"):
        if($_POST['status']=="On"){

            Configure::write('tag_system',0);


            die("Off");

        }
        elseif($_POST['status']=="Off"){
            Configure::write('tag_system',1);

            die("On");

        }


        break;

If i try

die(Configure::read('tag_system'));

it contains the correct value but when i reload the page, the value is missing. It’s not set in the general config file but when i did, the behavious was similar but instead of a blank value, Configure::read returned the value in the config file.

How should i handle this?

Answer 1

The Configure class writes values you pass to it into memory which are then only available during that request.

If you need to use the value in subsequent requests, which it sounds like you do, then you need to write the value to session.

# write
$this->Session->write('tag_system', 1);

# read
$this->Session->read('tag_system');