Getting User ID from Redux Auth

[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
[quote author="Timothy_" date="1243365063"]Dam1an, You are obviously an expert.[/quote]
If I'm an expert with code I've only spent a minute familiarising myself with, just imagine what I'm like with code I actually know

Its expected to look like that in the database
if you look at how the session class works (this based on what I remember when I last looked into it, so it may be a bit off) you'll see the userdata (and flashdata) arrays get serielized at the end of the http request and written to the database, on the next httprequest, the whole string is read from the database and unserialized back into the arrays.
What this means to you, is you can call it as you would normally, i.e:

Code:

$user_id = $this->session->userdata('user_id');