User permissions

[chrisburton]

I have a table setup strictly for user permissions (or roles, if you will) that will determine specific features within a comment system. I’m not particularly sure how I should setup the columns, however. For example, should I apply the user roles with numeric values or a string?

// Admin
role = 1 

// User
role = 2

Banned
role = 3

// OR (self explanatory)

role = 'admin'
role = 'user'
role = 'banned'

Therefore, I could do something like:

switch ($permission) {
    case 'admin': 
        $role = 'admin';
    break;
    case 'banned':
        $role = 'banned';
    break;
    default 'user':
        $role = 'user';
    break;
}

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[chrisburton]

I think I answered my own question.

[chrisburton]

The switch statement is redundant though

Thanks for the feedback, Ben.

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