Question

Basically I have a table with a couple of columns marked Unique. I have a script that dumps a bunch of values into the table with a command like this:

$this->db->query("INSERT INTO `table` (`col1`, `col2`, `col3`) VALUES (`val1`, `val2`, `val3`)");

Every so often my script will try to insert a row which would violate the uniqueness of one of the columns. However, instead of causing the script to abort with a database error, I’d like it to continue, possible outputting a little message. Basically I’m looking for the codeigniter equivalent of

mysql_query("INSERT blah blah blah") or print("fail");

Thanks!
Mala

Answer 1

Yeah, took me a while too and annoyed the hell out of me:

$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE;

… in config/database.php – disables the error page.

After a query ran, use this to check for an error:

if (!empty($this->db->_error_message())) {
    echo "FAIL";
}