Move Options setup to new PHP Class about external-videos HOT 1 OPEN

I was indeed thinking about creating an abstract class and including it into each of the other classes, but on reflection, it would be difficult to keep the state of the options synchronised. What if somebody else logs onto the site and changes the options while you have them cached and are working on a local copy? It's not simple to avoid re-reading the options all the time. It could be done by checking the timestamp of the last write to Options and if it hasn't changed, use an already cached version. But I'm not sure it makes much sense.

from external-videos.