PHP - What to store in a session?
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I know about all the issues with session fixation and hijacking. My question is really basic: I want to create an authentication system with PHP. For that, after the login, I would just store the user id in the session.
But: I've seen some people do weird things like generating a GUID for each user and session and storing that instead of just the user id in the session. Why?
The content of a session cannot be obtained by a client - or can it?
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