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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst11
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst4
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst6
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 10f5507eb..9ed53ba1b 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -49,13 +49,16 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Adding $escape parameter to the order_by function, this enables ordering by custom fields.
- MySQLi driver now uses mysqli_get_server_info() for server version checking.
- MySQLi driver now supports persistent connections when running on PHP >= 5.3.
+ - Added dsn if the group connections in the config use PDO or any driver which need DSN.
+ - Improved PDO database support.
+ - An optional database name parameter was added db_select().
- Libraries
- Added max_filename_increment config setting for Upload library.
- CI_Loader::_ci_autoloader() is now a protected method.
- Modified valid_ip() to use PHP's filter_var() when possible (>= PHP 5.2) in the :doc:`Form Validation library <libraries/form_validation>`.
- - Added custom filename to Email::attach() as $this->email->attach($filename, $disposition, $newname)
+ - Added custom filename to Email::attach() as $this->email->attach($filename, $disposition, $newname)
- Cart library changes include:
- It now auto-increments quantity's instead of just resetting it, this is the default behaviour of large e-commerce sites.
- Product Name strictness can be disabled via the Cart Library by switching "$product_name_safe"
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added support for 3-length hex color values for wm_font_color and wm_shadow_color properties, as well as validation for them.
- Class properties wm_font_color, wm_shadow_color and wm_use_drop_shadow are now protected, to avoid breaking the text_watermark() method
if they are set manually after initialization.
+ - If property maintain_ratio is set to TRUE, image_reproportion() now doesn't need both width and height to be specified.
- Minor speed optimizations and method & property visibility declarations in the Calendar Library.
- Removed SHA1 function in the :doc:`Encryption Library <libraries/encryption>`.
- Added $config['csrf_regeneration'] to the CSRF protection in the :doc:`Security library <libraries/security>`, which makes token regeneration optional.
@@ -100,6 +104,11 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a bug (#561) - Errors in :doc:`XML-RPC Library <libraries/xmlrpc>` were not properly escaped.
- Fixed a bug (#904) - ``CI_Loader::initialize()`` caused a PHP Fatal error to be triggered if error level E_STRICT is used.
- Fixed a hosting edge case where an empty $_SERVER['HTTPS'] variable would evaluate to 'on'
+- Fixed a bug (#154) - ``CI_Session::sess_update()`` caused the session to be destroyed on pages where multiple AJAX requests were executed at once.
+- Fixed a possible bug in ``CI_Input::is_ajax_request()`` where some clients might not send the X-Requested-With HTTP header value exactly as 'XmlHttpRequest'.
+- Fixed a bug (#1039) - MySQL's _backup() method failed due to a table name not being escaped.
+- Fixed a bug (#1070) - CI_DB_driver::initialize() didn't set a character set if a database is not selected.
+- Fixed a bug (#177) - CI_Form_validation::set_value() didn't set the default value if POST data is NULL.
Version 2.1.0
=============
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
index 4f88c25ab..040e7e33f 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ prototype::
$db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;
+If you use PDO as your dbdriver, you can specify the full DSN string describe a connection to the database like this::
+
+ $db['default']['dsn'] = 'pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=database_name';
+
You can also specify failovers for the situation when the main connection cannot connect for some reason.
These failovers can be specified by setting the failover for a connection like this::
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
index a834cc0f7..fb4524116 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ return the database object.
| $DB1->result();
| etc...
+.. note:: You don't need to create separate database configurations if you
+ only need to use a different database on the same connection. You
+ can switch to a different database when you need to, like this:
+
+ | $this->db->db_select($database2_name);
+
Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive
===========================================