Question

I’ve noticed that when ordering by a datetime column in CI with active record, it’s treating the column as a string, or int.

Example:

$this->db->limit(12);
    $this->db->where('subscribed',1);   
    $this->db->join('profiles','profiles.user_id=users.id');
    $this->db->where('active',1);
    $this->db->select('users.thumbUpload,users.vanity_url');
    $this->db->select('users.created_on as time');
    $this->db->order_by('time');
    $query = $this->db->get('users');

This is where users.created_on is a datetime field. Firstly, is it because active record is rendering time escaped, or is it something else? And if it is, can I prevent the escaping on order_by somehow?

Also, stackoverflow, please stop autocorrecting ‘datetime’ to ‘date time’. It’s annoying.

Cheers!

Answer 1

When you set second argument as false, function wont check and escape string. Try this

$this->db->select('users.created_on as time', FALSE);

Or for you query use

$this->db->order_by('users.created_on', 'DESC'); //or ASC

And for complex queries

$this->db->query("query");