Global variable in controller cakephp 2

cakephp, cakephp-2.0, cakephp-2.1, cakephp-2.2

Solution

you can set variable accessible in any controller in your AppController

class AppController extends Controller {
    public $myGlobalVar;  

    public function beforeFilter()
    {
         //this can be anything array, object, string, etc .....
         $this->myGlobalVar = "test2";
    }
 }

then in your other controller you can access variable anywhere like this

class TestController extends AppController {

    public function index() {

        debug($this->myGlobalVar);
    }
}

Problem

What's the way to have a global variable inside a controller? I have tried to do it using beforeFilter but it is not accessible from the others functions. Can it only be done using `Configure::read` and `Configure::write`

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