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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index adb8d88ce..99cdf4d4e 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added Interbase/Firebird database support via the *ibase* driver.
- Added ODBC support for ``create_database()``, ``drop_database()`` and ``drop_table()`` in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`.
- Added **save_queries** configuration setting to *application/config/database.php* (defaults to ``TRUE``).
- - Added support for escaping arrays sent as binding values to ``query()``
+ - Added support to binding arrays as ``IN()`` sets in ``query()``.
- :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>` changes include:
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
index b9152aac7..76ff1083f 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
@@ -132,11 +132,14 @@ put the queries together for you. Consider the following example::
The question marks in the query are automatically replaced with the
values in the array in the second parameter of the query function.
-Bindings also work with array values, useful for queries involving the IN operator::
+Binding also work with arrays, which will be transformed to IN sets::
$sql = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id IN ? AND status = ? AND author = ?";
$this->db->query($sql, array(array(3, 6), 'live', 'Rick'));
+The resulting query will be::
+
+ SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id IN (3,6) AND status = 'live' AND author = 'Rick'
The secondary benefit of using binds is that the values are
automatically escaped, producing safer queries. You don't have to