Question

I’m using Codeigniter to insert some data into a MySQL table. However, the single quotes automatically added in is giving me a problem with 'p' => 'POINT(1 1)' because this causes the SQL query generated to be 'POINT(1,1)' instead of POINT(1,1). If i pass the false 2nd parameter, all the single quotes will be removed from the generated SQL query. How should I approach this problem?

PHP Code

$data = array(  'lat' => $url['lat'],
                'lng' => $url['lng'],
                'p' => 'POINT(1 1)'
                );
$this->db->insert('listings', $data);

Answer 1

Try to do something like

$this->db->set(array(
   'lat' => $url['lat'],
   'lng' => $url['lng'],
), true);
$this->db->set(array(
   'p' => 'POINT(1 1)'
), false);
$this->db->insert("listings");

The second parameter will make sure that the value isn’t escaped.

Sorry if my answer is wrong, I am not using Codeigniter