In the codeigniter manual writes the following.
$this->db->select() accepts an optional second parameter. If you set it to FALSE, CodeIgniter wil
In MySQL, backticks quote names, while single quotes create strings. If you have a column called select
, MySQL would throw an syntax error when using this name without backticks -- like in SELECT select FROM foo
-- as it would interpret it as keyword which may not occur there.
This IF function can be used as a column specification in SELECT statements. See the MySQL reference.
This function returns the value from the default
column, if value
is the empty string. Else it returns the value from value
itself. The result will be called value
. See the MySQL reference for details.