Added documentation for DB active record insert_batch();

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/user_guide/database/active_record.html b/user_guide/database/active_record.html
index 30c45fdde..f2f33e212 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/active_record.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/active_record.html
@@ -489,10 +489,10 @@ echo $this-&gt;db-&gt;count_all_results();<br />
 
 <code>
 $data = array(<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'title' => 'My title' ,<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'name' => 'My Name' ,<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'date' => 'My date'<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;);<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'title' => 'My title' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'name' => 'My Name' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'date' => 'My date'<br />
+);<br />
 <br />
 $this->db->insert('mytable', $data);
 <br /><br />
@@ -521,6 +521,31 @@ $this->db->insert('mytable', $object);
 
 <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> All values are escaped automatically producing safer queries.</p>
 
+<h2>$this->db->insert_batch();</h2>
+<p>Generates an insert string based on the data you supply, and runs the query. You can either pass an
+<strong>array</strong> or an <strong>object</strong> to the function.  Here is an example using an array:</p>
+
+<code>
+$data = array(<br/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;array(<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'title' => 'My title' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'name' => 'My Name' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'date' => 'My date'<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;),<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;array(<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'title' => 'Another title' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'name' => 'Another Name' ,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'date' => 'Another date'<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;)<br/>
+);<br />
+<br />
+$this->db->insert_batch('mytable', $data);
+<br /><br />
+// Produces: INSERT INTO mytable (title, name, date) VALUES ('My title', 'My name', 'My date'),  ('Another title', 'Another name', 'Another date')</code>
+
+<p>The first parameter will contain the table name, the second is an associative array of values.</p>
+
+<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> All values are escaped automatically producing safer queries.</p>