Weird backticks behaviour in Active Record in CodeIgniter 2.0.3

Question

Previously my all queries were running fine in CI version 2.0 but when I upgraded to 2.0.3 some of my SELECT queries were broken.

CI is adding

Answer 1

The solution is very simple: In the database configuration file (./application/config/database.php) add a new element to array with default settings.

$db['default']['_protect_identifiers']= FALSE;

This solution is working for me and more elegant and professional.

Answer 2

I think you should check DB_driver.php file, there is a variable named as protect_identifier, the point is when you will check with older version of CI, you will see that there is a condition which is missing in new version,escape variable which is checked for nullability, paste that condition from older version and you will be OK

Answer 3

CI_DB_active_record::where() has a third param for escaping, this has worked better for me than switching on and off CI_DB_driver::_protect_identifiers

public function where($key, $value = NULL, $escape = TRUE)

Not sure what CI version this was added in.

HTH someone