Question

In the behaviors section of CakePHP documentation the following statement can be found:

Since behaviors are shared across all the model instances that use them, it’s a good practice to store the settings per alias/model name that is using the behavior.

That means that settings should be managed this way:

$this->settings[$Model->alias] = array(
  'option1_key' => 'option1_default_value',
  'option2_key' => 'option2_default_value',
  ...
);

I have developed a behavior that uses a protected property _files to store information between callbacks. Does the above statement implies that I should also index _files by model name as $settings?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Yes, that implies that 🙂
unless you want all model instances access to the very same content, of course.