Hello,
I'm developing a plugin to do XYZ. I'd like to use the existing appSettings class to store all my plugin's settings in the db.

What is the proper way to do this? There is no documentation on the API for writing plugins so I'm having to dig through all the hitAppt code to figure it out.

During the plugin's install-run.php, I am doing this:

// get settings manager instance
$settingsObj =& appSettings::getInstance();

$baseSettingsName = 'plugin/myplugin/';
$settings = array('setting1', 'setting2', 'setting3');

foreach($settings as $s)
{
        $_setting = $baseSettingsName . $s;

        $settingsObj->registerSetting($_setting);
        $settingsObj->setSetting($_setting, $_POST[$s]);
}

$settingsObj->save();

The above "does" work. I can see in the database that the settings are there. 3 records.

But when I go into run.php and try this:

// get settings manager instance
$settingsObj =& appSettings::getInstance();

$baseSettingsName = 'plugin/myplugin/';
$settings = array('setting1', 'setting2', 'setting3');

foreach($settings as $s)
{
        $_setting = $baseSettingsName . $s;

        $$s = $settingsObj->getSetting($_setting);
}

I get a whole bunch of "Setting 'plugin/myplugin/setting1' is not defined!"

But if I register the settings, then call load() again (effectively requerying and reloading all the settings again into memory), THEN running the getSetting() code, everything loads fine.

I should NOT have to register() then load() in order to get().

Can someone please explain wtf is going on?