User Preferences + Database

[eluser]boxyee[/eluser]
I'm working on a small project which requires the use of user preferences, such as currency and timezone etc. At the moment I have this stored on my database and is requested on page load. However I am worried about how this may affect performance if there were many users.

Are there any better solutions, or am I being worried for no reason??

Thanks,

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Use a caching library, such as the one from Phil Sturgeon, and cache the query results on disk.

[eluser]boxyee[/eluser]
[quote author="WanWizard" date="1289968455"]Use a caching library, such as the one from Phil Sturgeon, and cache the query results on disk.[/quote]

Thanks!! Will definately do that. Also saw the multicache library for memcache and APC, would you recommend that over the file caching?

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Depends on the volume of data and the amount of memory in your server. It is definately going to be faster.