Question

My question is about inserting data with CodeIgniter Active record. There’s an example on the guide to insert data with array:

$data = array(
   'title' => 'My title' ,
   'name' => 'My Name' ,
   'date' => 'My date'
);

$this->db->insert('mytable', $data); 

I wonder if there is some other way to insert the active record data, For example in in similar syntax:

    $this -> db -> select (*);
    $this -> db -> from ('users');
    $this -> db -> where('id', $id);
    $this -> db -> limit(1);

    $query = $this->db->get();

Thanks.

Answer 1

You may use set() method.

According to CI documentation, you may use following syntax:

$this->db->set('name', $name);
$this->db->insert('mytable'); 

which will produce following query:

INSERT INTO mytable (name) VALUES ('{$name}')

Hopefully it’s what you’re looking for.