It was easy. I just had to use loadModel to make sure the Setting model is loaded, also in different controllers.
<?php class AppController extends Controller { function beforeFilter() { * $this->loadModel('Setting');* $this->pfSettings = $this->getSettings(); $this->set('site_name', $this->pfSettings['name']); } function getSettings() { //check to see if they are in the cache. if (!$cachedSettings = Cache::read('settings', 'long')) { //fetch the settings from the database. if($settings = $this->Setting->find('all')) { $configurations = array(); foreach ($settings as $setting): //$configurations = array_merge(array($setting['Setting']['key']=>$setting['Setting']['value'])); $configurations[$setting['Setting']['key']] = $setting['Setting']['value']; endforeach; Cache::write('settings', $configurations); return $configurations; } else { exit(); } } else { //return the cached settings. return $cachedSettings; } } } -- 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php