Merge pull request #738 from EllisLab/feature/is_unique

Fix for is_unique when you are not connected to a db. Refs: #724

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
index 5663da981..918f6904c 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
  * An open source application development framework for PHP 5.1.6 or newer
  *
  * NOTICE OF LICENSE
- * 
+ *
  * Licensed under the Open Software License version 3.0
- * 
+ *
  * This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0) that is
  * bundled with this package in the files license.txt / license.rst.  It is
  * also available through the world wide web at this URL:
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 
 		return ($str !== $field) ? FALSE : TRUE;
 	}
-	
+
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -962,10 +962,13 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function is_unique($str, $field)
 	{
-		list($table, $field)=explode('.', $field);
-		$query = $this->CI->db->limit(1)->get_where($table, array($field => $str));
-		
-		return $query->num_rows() === 0;
+		list($table, $field) = explode('.', $field);
+		if (isset($this->CI->db))
+		{
+			$query = $this->CI->db->limit(1)->get_where($table, array($field => $str));
+			return $query->num_rows() === 0;
+		}
+		return FALSE;
     }
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------