Why 'role' and 'status' are smallint?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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I created my first user in my first yii 2 app: admin/admin, just to study yii 2

I see in db that role is set to 10, and status is set to 10

Can you explain me why to use integers instead of textual consts ? (ACTIVE, DELETED,… ADMIN, MANAGER, etc…)

2

There’s no real reason. Both are OK.

3

So, if we don’t use RBAC, to check the role we must create others constants into UserIdentity and check using these constants, right?

4

Well, that’s only a possible solution. There are certainly many ways of handling it.