Grouping WHERE clauses in Codeigniter

Question

I want to produce the following SQL code using Active Records in Codeigniter:

WHERE name != \'Joe\' AND (age < 69 OR id > 50)

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Answer 1

What I've done is duplicate the and clause after the where, which is effectively the same as the long string selection.

$this->db->select()
  ->from('users')
  ->where('name !=', 'Joe')
  ->where('age <', 69)
  ->or_where('id <', $id)
  ->where('name !=', 'Joe');

The one large string way is probably better.