[eluser]renownedmedia[/eluser]
Personally, I use a library called "Document" and I'll always run
Code:
$data = $this->Document->generate_data();
or something along those lines..
generate_data() returns an array of default values, some loaded from a database some a config file, etc.
Once I have that data array, if I want to change something specific to a page, I can easily overwrite it like this:
Code:
$data['title'] = 'something else';