[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
[quote author="lenwood" date="1272921118"]
This is a conceptual shift for me. Being new to building a dynamically generated website, I was just doing this the way that made the most sense to me. Can anyone comment on why I'd want to use one vs the other?
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Can you describe in more detail the two different approaches? It sounds like they're the same (but I might have misread this last message of yours).
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general you want to minimise database calls - single calls are typically less strain on the database than multiple calls, even if you end up with the same quantity of data at the end.