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-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/active_record.html35
-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/configuration.html6
-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/forge.html2
-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/results.html23
-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/utilities.html6
5 files changed, 58 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide/database/active_record.html b/user_guide/database/active_record.html
index 60e920208..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>
@@ -736,7 +761,7 @@ $this-&gt;db-&gt;get('tablename');<br />
<br />
//Generates: SELECT `field2` FROM (`tablename`)</code></p>
-<p class="important"> <strong>Note:</strong> The following statements can be cached: select, from, join, where, like, groupby, having, orderby, set</p>
+<p class="important"> <strong>Note:</strong> The following statements can be cached: select, from, join, where, like, group_by, having, order_by, set</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>
<!-- END CONTENT -->
diff --git a/user_guide/database/configuration.html b/user_guide/database/configuration.html
index 8e6fe1f42..d71cd34db 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/configuration.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/configuration.html
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ Configuration
<h1>Database Configuration</h1>
<p>CodeIgniter has a config file that lets you store your database connection values (username, password, database name, etc.).
-The config file is located at:</p>
-
-<p><kbd>application/config/database.php</kbd></p>
+The config file is located at <samp>application/config/database.php</samp>. You can also set database connection values for specific <a href="../libraries/config.html">environments</a> by placing <strong>database.php</strong> it the respective environment config folder.</p>
<p>The config settings are stored in a multi-dimensional array with this prototype:</p>
@@ -136,7 +134,7 @@ for the primary connection, but it too can be renamed to something more relevant
<li><strong>char_set</strong> - The character set used in communicating with the database.</li>
<li><strong>dbcollat</strong> - The character collation used in communicating with the database.</li>
<li><strong>swap_pre</strong> - A default table prefix that should be swapped with <var>dbprefix</var>. This is useful for distributed applications where you might run manually written queries, and need the prefix to still be customizable by the end user.</li>
-<li><strong>autoinit</strong> - Whether or not to automatically initialize the database.</li>
+<li><strong>autoinit</strong> - Whether or not to automatically connect to the database when the library loads. If set to false, the connection will take place prior to executing the first query.</li>
<li><strong>stricton</strong> - TRUE/FALSE (boolean) - Whether to force "Strict Mode" connections, good for ensuring strict SQL while developing an application.</li>
<li><strong>port</strong> - The database port number. To use this value you have to add a line to the database config array.<code>$db['default']['port'] = 5432;</code>
</ul>
diff --git a/user_guide/database/forge.html b/user_guide/database/forge.html
index 8b59848ca..d18db5820 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/forge.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/forge.html
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ $this-&gt;dbforge-&gt;add_column('table_name', $fields);<br />
<p>Used to remove a column from a table. </p>
<p><code>$this-&gt;dbforge-&gt;drop_column('table_name', 'column_to_drop');</code></p>
<h2>$this-&gt;dbforge-&gt;modify_column()</h2>
-<p>The usage of this function is identical to add_column(), except it alters an existing column rather than adding a new one. In order to use it you must add a &quot;name&quot; key into the field defining array.</p>
+<p>The usage of this function is identical to add_column(), except it alters an existing column rather than adding a new one. In order to change the name you can add a &quot;name&quot; key into the field defining array.</p>
<p><code>$fields = array(<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'old_name' =&gt; array(<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'name' =&gt; 'new_name',<br />
diff --git a/user_guide/database/results.html b/user_guide/database/results.html
index 75cb190f9..e9a5cb4cf 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/results.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/results.html
@@ -98,6 +98,18 @@ Query Results
}
</code>
+ <p>You can also pass a string to result() which represents a class to instantiate for each result object (note: this class must be loaded)</p>
+
+ <code>
+ $query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM users;");<br />
+ <br />
+ foreach ($query->result('User') as $user)<br />
+ {<br />
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo $row->name; // call attributes<br />
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo $row->reverse_name(); // or methods defined on the 'User' class<br />
+ }
+ </code>
+
<h2>result_array()</h2>
<p>This function returns the query result as a pure array, or an empty array when no result is produced. Typically you'll use this in a foreach loop, like this:</p>
@@ -133,6 +145,15 @@ Query Results
<code>$row = $query->row(<dfn>5</dfn>);</code>
+ <p>You can also add a second String parameter, which is the name of a class to instantiate the row with:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ $query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 1;");<br />
+ <br />
+ $query->row(0, 'User')<br />
+ echo $row->name; // call attributes<br />
+ echo $row->reverse_name(); // or methods defined on the 'User' class<br />
+ </code>
<h2>row_array()</h2>
@@ -235,4 +256,4 @@ Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="helpers.html">Query Helper Functions</a>
</div>
</body>
-</html> \ No newline at end of file
+</html>
diff --git a/user_guide/database/utilities.html b/user_guide/database/utilities.html
index d4296fe2e..4a8b6739e 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/utilities.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/utilities.html
@@ -96,19 +96,19 @@ already be running, since the utilities class relies on it.</p>
<code>
$dbs = $this->dbutil->list_databases();<br />
<br />
-foreach($dbs as $db)<br />
+foreach ($dbs as $db)<br />
{<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo $db;<br />
}</code>
-<h2><a name="exists"></a>$this->db->database_exists();</h2>
+<h2><a name="exists"></a>$this->dbutil->database_exists();</h2>
<p>Sometimes it's helpful to know whether a particular database exists.
Returns a boolean TRUE/FALSE. Usage example:</p>
<code>
-if ($this->db->database_exists('database_name'))<br />
+if ($this->dbutil->database_exists('database_name'))<br />
{<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; // some code...<br />
}