CodeIgniter and autoloading the database library

Question

I\'ve got an issue connecting to the database with CodeIgniter.

In the model, if I do

$this->load->database();

then a query such

Answer 1

This is my database.php from my application/config/ directory

$active_group = 'default';   
$active_record = TRUE;        
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'mydbhost';   
$db['default']['username'] = 'myusername';    
$db['default']['password'] = 'mypassword';    
$db['default']['database'] = 'mydatabase'; 
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';    
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = '';    
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;    
$db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;   
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;   
$db['default']['cachedir'] = '';    
$db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';    
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';    
$db['default']['swap_pre'] = '';    
$db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;    
$db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;

Check yours looks like this and rerun through the user guide at http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/configuration.html and reread the comments in the autoload.php file in the config directory.

The relevant line in mine reads:

$autoload['libraries'] = array('database', 'form_validation', 'session');

You should be loading the db library like this:

$this->load->library('database');