Wondering if there is an existing plugin/approach for config data that
you
want your application to be able to change? In other words a value/pair
type configuration plugin that persists to the database.
Just a normal Model would be OK, however any neat tricks how to handle
the
fact that each parameter may be a different type? e.g. have a column in
the
model to hold the type & store value as a string? have a different
column
for each type but then any given parameter (or row in database terms)
would
populate only one of the columns?
i don’t know of any plugins, but i did the same thing once for a
project of mine. i used your first alternative. my configuration model
had only two attributes: “name” and “value”. i only saved strings. for
config this was sufficient.