Question

I have a textarea and am submitting the form it is in using AJAX using GET.
I want to preserve the whitespace, so i have a url that look a bit like

http://.../notes/insert/?user_id=12&note_string=new /r/r/r/r/r/rline&account_id=  

however when i use $this->db->insert();
it converts the query to

INSERT INTO `notes` (`user_id`, `note_string`, `account_id`)
VALUES ('12', 'new \\r\\r\\r\\r\\r\\rline', '')

(in the controller i then replace /r for \r)

Is there a way of escaping the escape? lol or just letting the \r through?

Thank you

Answer 1

Take a look at ‘Query Bindings’ in the CodeIgniter documentation http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/queries.html

$sql = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id = ? AND status = ? AND author = ?"; 
$this->db->query($sql, array(3, 'live', 'Rick'));