Question

In mysql I can query as following:

select studentname,'student' as profession from students

It returns something like:

studentname | profession  
------------+-----------
name1       | student  
name2       | student  
...

But how can I do so in codeigniter using active records? I am a newbie to CI, so your help is appreciated.

Note: Just to clear my question, there is no column named student or profession in the students table. student is a fixed text that I want to have with my resultset.

If I query something like:

$this->db->select("studentname, student as profession")->from('students')

then it gives error as it try to find student column while it’s just a static value.

Answer 1

select has a second option. Set it to false and try –

$this->db->select('studentname, "student" as profession', false)->from('students')