You are right, now that I think about it, I was using php prior to their implementation of object oriented. So I had no objects, the users were entities in my

You are right, now that I think about it, I was using php prior to their implementation of object oriented. So I had no objects, the users were entities in my head, I had to keep track of their data, so a multi column entry in a database made totally sense to me at the time.