How many MySQL queries should I limit myself to on a page? PHP / MySQL

Question

Okay, so I\'m sure plenty of you have built crazy database intensive pages...

I am building a page that I\'d like to pull all sorts of unrelated database informati

Answer 1

Premature optimisation is a problem like people have mentioned before, but that's where you're crapping up your code to make it run 'fast'. But people take this 'maxim' too far.

If you want to design with scalability in mind, just make sure whatever you do to load data is sufficiently abstracted and calls are centralized, this will make it easier when you need to implement a shared memory cache, as you'll only have to change a few things in a few places.