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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst70
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst6
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/helpers.rst6
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst17
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst9
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/utilities.rst6
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst115
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/overview/at_a_glance.rst2
8 files changed, 190 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index fd67ac233..c1010f16c 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Added support for 3gp, 3g2, mp4, wmv, f4v, vlc Video files to mimes.php.
- Added support for m4a, aac, m4u, xspf, au, ac3, flac, ogg Audio files to mimes.php.
- Added support for kmz and kml (Google Earth) files to mimes.php.
+ - Updated support for doc files in mimes.php.
- Added application/xml for xml and application/xml, text/xsl for xsl in mimes.php.
- Changed logger to only chmod when file is first created.
- Removed previously deprecated SHA1 Library.
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- url_title() will now trim extra dashes from beginning and end.
- Added XHTML Basic 1.1 doctype to :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>`.
- Changed humanize to include a second param for the separator.
+ - Refactored ``plural()`` and ``singular()`` to avoid double pluralization and support more words.
+ - Added an optional third parameter to ``force_download()`` that enables/disables sending the actual file MIME type in the Content-Type header (disabled by default).
- Database
@@ -51,6 +54,17 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- 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.
+ - Added Interbase/Firebird database support via the "interbase" driver
+ - Added an optional database name parameter to db_select().
+ - Replaced the _error_message() and _error_number() methods with error(), that returns an array containing the last database error code and message.
+ - Improved version() implementation so that drivers that have a native function to get the version number don't have to be defined in the core DB_driver class.
+ - Improved support of the PostgreSQL driver, including:
+ - pg_version() is now used to get the database version number, when possible.
+ - Added db_set_charset() support.
+ - Added _optimize_table() support for the :doc:`Database Utility Class <database/utilities>` (rebuilds table indexes).
+ - Added a constructor to the DB_result class and moved all driver-specific properties and logic out of the base DB_driver class to allow better abstraction.
+ - Removed limit() and order_by() support for UPDATE and DELETE queries in PostgreSQL driver. Postgres does not support those features.
+ - Removed protect_identifiers() and renamed _protect_identifiers() to it instead - it was just an alias.
- Libraries
@@ -71,7 +85,11 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- 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.
- - Added all_flashdata method to session class. Returns an associative array of only flashdata.
+ - Added all_flashdata() method to session class. Returns an associative array of only flashdata.
+ - Added function error_array() to return all error messages as an array in the Form_validation class.
+ - Added function set_data() to Form_validation library, which can be used in place of the default $_POST array.
+ - Added function reset_validation() to form validation library, which resets internal validation variables in case of multiple validation routines.
+ - Changed the Session library to select only one row when using database sessions.
- Core
@@ -79,13 +97,13 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Removed CI_CORE boolean constant from CodeIgniter.php (no longer Reactor and Core versions).
- Added method get_vars() to CI_Loader to retrieve all variables loaded with $this->load->vars().
- is_loaded() function from system/core/Commons.php now returns a reference.
+ - $config['rewrite_short_tags'] now has no effect when using PHP 5.4 as *<?=* will always be available.
Bug fixes for 3.0
------------------
- Unlink raised an error if cache file did not exist when you try to delete it.
-- Fixed a bug (#181) where a mis-spelling was in the form validation
- language file.
+- Fixed a bug (#181) where a mis-spelling was in the form validation language file.
- Fixed a bug (#159, #163) that mishandled Active Record nested transactions because _trans_depth was not getting incremented.
- Fixed a bug (#737, #75) where pagination anchor class was not set properly when using initialize method.
- Fixed a bug (#419) - auto_link() now recognizes URLs that come after a word boundary.
@@ -108,11 +126,55 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- 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.
+- Fixed a bug (#68, #414) - Oracle's escape_str() didn't properly escape LIKE wild characters.
+- Fixed a bug (#81) - ODBC's list_fields() and field_data() methods skipped the first column due to odbc_field_*() functions' index starting at 1 instead of 0.
+- Fixed a bug (#129) - ODBC's num_rows() returned -1 in some cases, due to not all subdrivers supporting the odbc_num_rows() function.
+- Fixed a bug (#153) - E_NOTICE being generated by getimagesize() in the :doc:`File Uploading Library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+- Fixed a bug (#611) - SQLSRV's error handling methods used to issue warnings when there's no actual error.
+- Fixed a bug (#1036) - is_write_type() method in the :doc:`Database Library <database/index>` didn't return TRUE for RENAME and OPTIMIZE queries.
+- Fixed a bug in PDO's _version() method where it used to return the client version as opposed to the server one.
+- Fixed a bug in PDO's insert_id() method where it could've failed if it's used with Postgre versions prior to 8.1.
+- Fixed a bug in CUBRID's affected_rows() method where a connection resource was passed to cubrid_affected_rows() instead of a result.
+- Fixed a bug (#638) - db_set_charset() ignored its arguments and always used the configured charset and collation instead.
+- Fixed a bug (#413) - Oracle's error handling methods used to only return connection-related errors.
+- Fixed a bug (#804) - Profiler library was trying to handle objects as strings in some cases, resulting in warnings being issued by htmlspecialchars().
+- Fixed a bug (#1101) - MySQL/MySQLi result method field_data() was implemented as if it was handling a DESCRIBE result instead of the actual result set.
+- Fixed a bug in Oracle's :doc:`Database Forge Class <database/forge>` method _create_table() where it failed with AUTO_INCREMENT as it's not supported.
+- Fixed a bug (#1080) - When using the SMTP protocol, the :doc:`Email Library <libraries/email>` send() method was returning TRUE even if the connection/authentication against the server failed.
+- Fixed a bug (#499) - a CSRF cookie was created even with CSRF protection being disabled.
+- Fixed a bug (#306) - ODBC's insert_id() method was calling non-existent function odbc_insert_id(), which resulted in a fatal error.
+- Fixed a bug in Oracle's DB_result class where the cursor id passed to it was always NULL.
+- Fixed a bug (#64) - Regular expression in DB_active_rec.php failed to handle queries containing SQL bracket delimiters in the join condition.
+- Fixed a bug in the :doc:`Session Library <libraries/sessions>` where a PHP E_NOTICE error was triggered by _unserialize() due to results from databases such as MSSQL and Oracle being space-padded on the right.
+
+Version 2.1.1
+=============
+
+Release Date: Not Released
+
+- General Changes
+ - Fixed support for docx, xlsx files in mimes.php.
+
+- Libraries
+ - Further improved MIME type detection in the :doc:`File Uploading Library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+
+- Helpers
+ - url_title() performance and output improved. You can now use any string as the word delimiter, but 'dash' and 'underscore' are still supported.
+
+Bug fixes for 2.1.1
+-------------------
+
+- Fixed a bug (#697) - A wrong array key was used in the Upload library to check for mime-types.
+- Fixed a bug - form_open() compared $action against site_url() instead of base_url().
+- Fixed a bug - CI_Upload::_file_mime_type() could've failed if mime_content_type() is used for the detection and returns FALSE.
+- Fixed a bug (#538) - Windows paths were ignored when using the :doc:`Image Manipulation Library <libraries/image_lib>` to create a new file.
+- Fixed a bug - When database caching was enabled, $this->db->query() checked the cache before binding variables which resulted in cached queries never being found
Version 2.1.0
=============
-Release Date: Not Released
+Release Date: November 14, 2011
- General Changes
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
===========================================
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/helpers.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/helpers.rst
index 7ea19e9f6..e8a5ac801 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/helpers.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/helpers.rst
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ $this->db->insert_id()
The insert ID number when performing database inserts.
-.. note:: If using the PDO driver with PostgreSQL, this function requires
- a $name parameter, which specifies the appropriate sequence to check
- for the insert id.
+.. note:: If using the PDO driver with PostgreSQL, or using the Interbase
+ driver, this function requires a $name parameter, which specifies the
+ appropriate sequence to check for the insert id.
$this->db->affected_rows()
===========================
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
index 971d5d61d..15a73614a 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/queries.rst
@@ -112,3 +112,20 @@ The secondary benefit of using binds is that the values are
automatically escaped, producing safer queries. You don't have to
remember to manually escape data; the engine does it automatically for
you.
+
+***************
+Handling Errors
+***************
+
+$this->db->error();
+===================
+
+If you need to get the last error that has occured, the error() method
+will return an array containing its code and message. Here's a quick
+example::
+
+ if ( ! $this->db->simple_query('SELECT `example_field` FROM `example_table`'))
+ {
+ $error = $this->db->error(); // Has keys 'code' and 'message'
+ }
+
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
index 4f93c794d..865345762 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/results.rst
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ is the variable that the query result object is assigned to::
echo $query->num_rows();
+.. note::
+ Not all database drivers have a native way of getting the total
+ number of rows for a result set. When this is the case, all of
+ the data is prefetched and count() is manually called on the
+ resulting array in order to achieve the same functionality.
+
$query->num_fields()
=====================
@@ -182,5 +188,4 @@ Example::
$row = $query2->row();
echo $row->name;
- $query2->free_result();// The $query2 result object will no longer be available
-
+ $query2->free_result(); // The $query2 result object will no longer be available
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/utilities.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/utilities.rst
index b0920109f..3805ffb87 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/utilities.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/utilities.rst
@@ -161,7 +161,11 @@ $this->dbutil->backup()
Permits you to backup your full database or individual tables. The
backup data can be compressed in either Zip or Gzip format.
-.. note:: This features is only available for MySQL databases.
+.. note:: This features is only available for MySQL and Interbase/Firebird databases.
+
+.. note:: For Interbase/Firebird databases, the backup file name is the only parameter.
+
+ Eg. $this->dbutil->backup('db_backup_filename');
.. note:: Due to the limited execution time and memory available to PHP,
backing up very large databases may not be possible. If your database is
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
index e7875bc22..5aa64d032 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
@@ -579,7 +579,30 @@ must supply it as an array to the function. Example::
For more info please see the :ref:`using-arrays-as-field-names` section below.
-.. _saving-groups:
+Validating an Array (other than $_POST)
+=======================================
+
+Sometimes you may want to validate an array that does not originate from $_POST data.
+
+In this case, you can specify the array to be validated::
+
+ $data = array(
+ 'username' => 'johndoe',
+ 'password' => 'mypassword',
+ 'passconf' => 'mypassword'
+ );
+
+ $this->form_validation->set_data($data);
+
+Creating validation rules, running the validation and retrieving error messages works the same whether you are
+validating $_POST data or an array.
+
+**Important Note:** If you want to validate more than one array during a single execution, then you should
+call the reset_validation() function before setting up rules and validating the new array.
+
+For more info please see the :ref:`function-reference` section below.
+
+-.. _saving-groups:
************************************************
Saving Sets of Validation Rules to a Config File
@@ -823,34 +846,40 @@ Rule Reference
The following is a list of all the native rules that are available to
use:
-======================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
-Rule Parameter Description Example
-======================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
-**required** No Returns FALSE if the form element is empty.
-**matches** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element does not match the one in the parameter. matches[form_item]
-**is_unique** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not unique to the is_unique[table.field]
- table and field name in the parameter. is_unique[table.field]
-**max_length** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is longer then the parameter value. max_length[12]
-**exact_length** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not exactly the parameter value. exact_length[8]
-**greater_than** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is less than the parameter value or not numeric. greater_than[8]
-**less_than** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is greater than the parameter value or not numeric. less_than[8]
-**alpha** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alphabetical characters.
-**alpha_numeric** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alpha-numeric characters.
-**alpha_dash** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alpha-numeric characters,
- underscores or dashes.
-**numeric** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than numeric characters.
-**integer** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than an integer.
-**decimal** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not exactly the parameter value.
-**is_natural** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than a natural number:
- 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.
-**is_natural_no_zero** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than a natural
- number, but not zero: 1, 2, 3, etc.
-**is_unique** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not unique in a database table. is_unique[table.field]
-**valid_email** No Returns FALSE if the form element does not contain a valid email address.
-**valid_emails** No Returns FALSE if any value provided in a comma separated list is not a valid email.
-**valid_ip** No Returns FALSE if the supplied IP is not valid.
-**valid_base64** No Returns FALSE if the supplied string contains anything other than valid Base64 characters.
-======================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
+========================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
+Rule Parameter Description Example
+========================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
+**required** No Returns FALSE if the form element is empty.
+**matches** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element does not match the one in the parameter. matches[form_item]
+**is_unique** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not unique to the is_unique[table.field]
+ table and field name in the parameter. is_unique[table.field]
+**max_length** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is longer then the parameter value. max_length[12]
+**exact_length** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not exactly the parameter value. exact_length[8]
+**greater_than** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is less than or equal to the parameter value or not greater_than[8]
+ numeric.
+**greater_than_equal_to** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is less than the parameter value, greater_than_equal_to[8]
+ or not numeric.
+**less_than** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is greater than or equal to the parameter value or less_than[8]
+ not numeric.
+**less_than_equal_to** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is greater than the parameter value, less_than_equal_to[8]
+ or not numeric.
+**alpha** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alphabetical characters.
+**alpha_numeric** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alpha-numeric characters.
+**alpha_dash** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alpha-numeric characters,
+ underscores or dashes.
+**numeric** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than numeric characters.
+**integer** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than an integer.
+**decimal** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not exactly the parameter value.
+**is_natural** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than a natural number:
+ 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.
+**is_natural_no_zero** No Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than a natural
+ number, but not zero: 1, 2, 3, etc.
+**is_unique** Yes Returns FALSE if the form element is not unique in a database table. is_unique[table.field]
+**valid_email** No Returns FALSE if the form element does not contain a valid email address.
+**valid_emails** No Returns FALSE if any value provided in a comma separated list is not a valid email.
+**valid_ip** No Returns FALSE if the supplied IP is not valid.
+**valid_base64** No Returns FALSE if the supplied string contains anything other than valid Base64 characters.
+========================= ========== ============================================================================================= =======================
.. note:: These rules can also be called as discrete functions. For
example::
@@ -930,6 +959,33 @@ $this->form_validation->set_message();
Permits you to set custom error messages. See :ref:`setting-error-messages`
+$this->form_validation->set_data();
+========================================
+
+ .. php:method:: set_data ($data = '')
+
+ :param array $data: The data to validate
+
+ Permits you to set an array for validation, instead of using the default
+ $_POST array.
+
+$this->form_validation->reset_validation();
+========================================
+
+ .. php:method:: reset_validation ()
+
+ Permits you to reset the validation when you validate more than one array.
+ This function should be called before validating each new array.
+
+$this->form_validation->error_array();
+========================================
+
+ .. php:method:: error_array ()
+
+ :rtype: Array
+
+ Returns the error messages as an array.
+
.. _helper-functions:
****************
@@ -1011,4 +1067,3 @@ This function is identical to the **set_checkbox()** function above.
<input type="radio" name="myradio" value="1" <?php echo set_radio('myradio', '1', TRUE); ?> />
<input type="radio" name="myradio" value="2" <?php echo set_radio('myradio', '2'); ?> />
-
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/overview/at_a_glance.rst b/user_guide_src/source/overview/at_a_glance.rst
index 31f0b4dd9..6dcfdbb14 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/overview/at_a_glance.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/overview/at_a_glance.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CodeIgniter Uses M-V-C
CodeIgniter uses the Model-View-Controller approach, which allows great
separation between logic and presentation. This is particularly good for
projects in which designers are working with your template files, as the
-code these file contain will be minimized. We describe MVC in more
+code these files contain will be minimized. We describe MVC in more
detail on its own page.
CodeIgniter Generates Clean URLs