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Hello !

I have a little question here.

I’m building my own component and it will have some filters possibles, eg. to filters the content by “days old” (days_active).

When running a query to show the items, the script would check :

-if the user set a days_active filter

–if not, if the admin set a days_active filter.

My question is:

How must I call the datas ?

I have set all the admin filters in

$bp->mycomponent->options.

So to get the admin filter, I would get $bp->mycomponent->options['days_active'].

It’s in the global so here it’s rather ok.

Now for the user…

get_usermeta($user_id,’mycomponent_days_active).

But if I run this each time, it will slow my component…

So where to store it ?

Is it a good idea to store that in sessions ? It could work both for logged in and non logged in users…

OR maybe in sessions for visitors and elsewhere for members ?

Thanks to give me some advices !