What is the correct way to load data from a databse once for use everywhere?

From what I can tell that will work, but unless I'm mistaken, every time config('foo')->bar gets called its going to call the constructor and pull all that data down from the database.  This defeats the purpose of trying to "load it into memory" once for use everywhere.

You are mistaken.
See https://codeigniter4.github.io/CodeIgnit...-factories

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