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Hi…

For a site I am working on, I am using Brandon Kelly’s fieldframe and using a checkbox field type to let my client choose groups.

ie. in a weblog called ‘books’, there are three checkboxes: childrens, history, sports

Then, in a template, I say,

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="books"}
{if {book-type:selected option="history"}}

{title}

{/if}
{exp:weblog:entries}

Is there a significant performance hit doing it this way, vs using categories for the three groups, like this:?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="books" category="4"}

{title}

{exp:weblog:entries}

I use the checkboxes because it is easier for a client to enter content when they just have to use the publish form, and don’t have to click on the categories tab. I assume there is a performance hit, because the loop has to iterate through all of the entries, and then do an ‘if’ on each one, vs doing a query before we start iterating. But when will I start to notice a difference? 100 entries? 1000? 100000?

Thanks.