Do you fill your forms templates dynamically?

[sjariri]

I was wondering what are the issues involve in deciding if I should fill the templates in a form (e.g values of combo boxes) dynamically from database or statically from the page itself. I can think of issues and trade offs like database performance or the need to update these values, but I am not sure how much pressure does “a query per combo box” puts on a regular MySQL database.

So, what is your recommended way for filling forms’ templates?

[jaski]

hardly any pressure .. go ahead and use mysql.

[mcibor]

How did you plan to fill the checkboxes statically? You meant the same for each user? Better use mysql, as the page is then more personalised and forget the time loss - any picture loads far longer than db working

Best regards
Michal Cibor

[ergophobe]

It's not likely to be a query per comb box either. Presumably some combo boxes will have data from the same table. That's one query for several boxes.