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-rw-r--r--user_guide/changelog.html2
-rw-r--r--user_guide/database/active_record.html33
-rw-r--r--user_guide/libraries/output.html15
3 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index d759686e9..815590dc1 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ Hg Tag: n/a</p>
<li class="reactor">Added <kbd>decimal</kbd>, <kbd>less_than</kbd> and <kbd>greater_than</kbd> rules to the <a href="libraries/form_validation.html">Form validation Class</a>.</li>
<li class="reactor"><a href="libraries/input.html">Input Class</a> methods <kbd>post()</kbd> and <kbd>get()</kbd> will now return a full array if the first argument is not provided.</li>
<li class="reactor">Secure cookies can now be made with the <kbd>set_cookie()</kbd> helper and <a href="libraries/input.html">Input Class</a> method.</li>
+ <li class="reactor">Added <kbd>set_content_type()</kbd> to <a href="libraries/output.html">Output Class</a> to set the output <kbd>Content-Type</kbd> HTTP header based on a MIME Type or a config/mimes.php array key.</li>
+ <li class="reactor"><a href="libraries/output.html">Output Class</a> will now support method chaining.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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', $data);
+<br /><br />
+// Produces: INSERT INTO mytable (title, name, date) VALUES ('My title', 'My name', 'My date'), ('Another title', 'Another name', 'Another date')</code>
+
+<p>The first parameter will contain the table name, the second is an associative array of values.</p>
+
+<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> All values are escaped automatically producing safer queries.</p>
diff --git a/user_guide/libraries/output.html b/user_guide/libraries/output.html
index ab8f1d683..25ec521b1 100644
--- a/user_guide/libraries/output.html
+++ b/user_guide/libraries/output.html
@@ -78,6 +78,21 @@ It is possible, however, for you to manually intervene with the output if you ne
For example, if you build a page in one of your controller functions, don't set the output until the end.</p>
+<h2>$this->output->set_content_type();</h2>
+
+<p>Permits you to set the mime-type of your page so you can serve JSON data, JPEG's, XML, etc easily.</p>
+
+<code>$this->output<br/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;->set_content_type('application/json')<br/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;->set_output(json_encode(array('foo' => 'bar')));<br/>
+<br/>
+$this->output<br/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;->set_content_type('jpeg') // You could also use ".jpeg" which will have the full stop removed before looking in config/mimes.php<br/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;->set_output(file_get_contents('files/something.jpg'));</code>
+
+<p><strong>Important:</strong> Make sure any non-mime string you pass to this method exists in config/mimes.php or it will have no effect.</p>
+
+
<h2>$this->output->get_output();</h2>
<p>Permits you to manually retrieve any output that has been sent for storage in the output class. Usage example:</p>