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Is it safe to store the user’s role in Codeigniter’s session?
The role will determine what function the user will have; that is being a admin, a regular subscriber, or a premium user.
I am also storing the session in a database for additional security, but I would like to know if I should use a alternate route, such as querying the user’s id and checking their role but I believe that just taking it one step further in authentication.
Please advise.
Yeah that’s safe. If it’s stored in the database, there’s pretty much nothing a user can do to tamper with the data.