Hey, thanks for the response. I think you're right. I'm planning to go for the object approach take the route which minimizes queries. It should still be helpful to have the object, I think, since it will make my controllers cleaner and move more of the logic out of them. I hope it will be good.

Your answer was actually helpful, and I've been kicking this design around in my head for the last few days, so I'm to the point where I think I've got a pretty logical way of doing everything.

Programming gets weird at this point, now that I no longer struggle to simply make something work, but I struggle to make it work in the best possible way... Thanks again

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