Merged Alex Bilbies MSSQL changes.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/application/config/database.php b/application/config/database.php
index 24d611ac5..e77bf97df 100644
--- a/application/config/database.php
+++ b/application/config/database.php
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
 /*
 | -------------------------------------------------------------------
 | DATABASE CONNECTIVITY SETTINGS
@@ -16,23 +16,29 @@
 |	['username'] The username used to connect to the database
 |	['password'] The password used to connect to the database
 |	['database'] The name of the database you want to connect to
-|	['dbdriver'] The database type. ie: mysql.  Currently supported:
-				 mysql, mysqli, postgre, odbc, mssql, sqlite, oci8
+|	['dbdriver'] The database type. ie: mysql. Currently supported:
+|				 mysql, mysqli, postgre, odbc, mssql, sqlite, oci8
 |	['dbprefix'] You can add an optional prefix, which will be added
-|				 to the table name when using the  Active Record class
+|				 to the table name when using the Active Record class
 |	['pconnect'] TRUE/FALSE - Whether to use a persistent connection
 |	['db_debug'] TRUE/FALSE - Whether database errors should be displayed.
 |	['cache_on'] TRUE/FALSE - Enables/disables query caching
 |	['cachedir'] The path to the folder where cache files should be stored
 |	['char_set'] The character set used in communicating with the database
 |	['dbcollat'] The character collation used in communicating with the database
+|				 NOTE: For MySQL and MySQLi databases, this setting is only used
+| 				 as a backup if your server is running PHP < 5.2.3 or MySQL < 5.0.7.
+| 				 There is an incompatibility in PHP with mysql_real_escape_string() which
+| 				 can make your site vulnerable to SQL injection if you are using a
+| 				 multi-byte character set and are running versions lower than these.
+| 				 Sites using Latin-1 or UTF-8 database character set and collation are unaffected.
 |	['swap_pre'] A default table prefix that should be swapped with the dbprefix
 |	['autoinit'] Whether or not to automatically initialize the database.
 |	['stricton'] TRUE/FALSE - forces 'Strict Mode' connections
 |							- good for ensuring strict SQL while developing
 |
 | The $active_group variable lets you choose which connection group to
-| make active.  By default there is only one group (the 'default' group).
+| make active. By default there is only one group (the 'default' group).
 |
 | The $active_record variables lets you determine whether or not to load
 | the active record class