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What does using false as the second parameter of CodeIgniter's select() method do?

I am unable to understand following:

$this->db->select('1', FALSE);

Can someone explain what this does and when to use it?

Solution

  • The first parameter is the field names or values in your case 1 from your table, the second parameter FALSE prevents the first parameter being wrapped in backticks. You'd use this is you were nesting a sub query as the first parameter.

    For further information see the Codigniter docs which are incredibly useful.