Best practices/place for setting session data

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
I echo n0xie's suggestion.

If you head into the [url="/wiki/FAQ"]FAQ[/url] and look at one of the first questions answered there, about repeating lumps of code, you'll see a few suggestions. The [url="/wiki/MY_Controller"]MY_Controller[/url] approach is certainly one of the easiest and most common ways of implementing this kind of functionality. Unsurprisingly, it's in the FAQ because it's asked about so frequently.