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I'm building my first CI site, and in the spirit of CI's lightweight mantra, I'm trying to decide what is the best way to load my models. Here's the situation: I've got several types of pages, and to create my navigation dynamically, I'm loading the models for each page type based on information in my database. That results in a call to
Code:
$this->load->model($modelname)
for every navigation item on a page (there are between 8 and 12 on each). However, there is no guarantee that each page will utilize all potential models.
So my question boils down to this: Is it more efficient to call
Code:
$this->load->model($modelname)
repeatedly (which does just return if the model is already loaded -- I checked the source), or would it be more efficient to autoload all page models
Code:
$autoload['model'] = array('page', 'event', etc...)
(there would be about 5) with every request?
Thanks for any input!
