As Adam said, it is an unrealistic claim to say cake makes thousands
of queries to do something routine.
In addition, you always have full control over the generated queries
either by enforcing JOINs with on-the-fly model binding, or by using
Containable to limit the amount of returned data.
On O
Yes, by default cakephp does make a lot of database queries if you
have a lot of model associations. Thousands? Hmm... not really that
I've seen.. but still more than one would hope for (for me sometimes
between 40 and 120 per page, although all of them would take "0 ms"
each).
Having said that,
Some months ago I read an anti-cake / fear mongering message,
something about how cakephp routinely makes thousands of database
queries to accomplish typical, regular actions. Guess what? Fear was
mongered.
Not trying to monger more fear, just wondering (1) was there any truth
to that, and (2)
