Question

So what am I doing wrong? When I run the following code, the database is always updated even though transactions is in test mode.

/**
 * update_batch
 * This updates multiple rows. The data array must include the game_id and game_type_prize_id
 * @param array
 * @return bool
 * @author zechdc
 */
function update_batch($data)
{
    $result = TRUE;

    foreach($data as $prize)
    {
        $this->db->trans_start(TRUE); //first param is set to TRUE for test mode.
        $this->db->where('game_id', $prize['game_id']);
        $this->db->where('game_type_prize_id', $prize['game_type_prize_id']);
        $this->db->update('game_prizes', $prize);
        $this->db->trans_complete();

        if($this->db->affected_rows() == -1)
        {
            $result = FALSE;
        }
    }


    return $result;
}

Answer 1

AbhishekDilliwal provided us with the answer in his comments. If he posts the answer I will delete mine and accept his so he gets credit instead of me.

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Answer:

Codeigniter Transactions Test Mode Currently Does Not Work.

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Solution:

Replace:

$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE) ? TRUE : FALSE;

with:

$this->_trans_status = ($test_mode === TRUE) ? FALSE : $this->_trans_status;

in the following codeigniter system files:

system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.php
system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php
system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_driver.php
system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_driver.php
system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_driver.php
system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php

It looks like rommelxcastro submitted the fix to the github repo already. Now we just have to wait for Codeigniter to pull it and release a new version 🙂

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Sources:

• Abhishek Dilliwal’s comment
• https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/issues/5
• https://github.com/rommelxcastro/CodeIgniter/commit/6f4ffeb35fdc06024c63de0fc929566140b8176a