Site Architecture with CI - question from advanced user

[eluser]Colm Ward[/eluser]
I would say a). I wouldn't worry too much about the number of database queries in this particular case. I mean how often do you expect users to be updating their profiles?

In my (admittedly limited) experience you can get yourself into all kinds of knots trying to reduce the number of db queries at the expense of having easily understandable business logic.