Inserting NOW() into Database with CodeIgniter's Active Record

Question

I want to insert current time in database using mySQL function NOW() in Codeigniter\'s active record. The following query won\'t work:

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Answer 1

Unless I am greatly mistaken, the answer is, "No, there is no way."

The basic problem in situations like that is the fact that you are calling a MySQL function and you're not actually setting a value. CI escapes values so that you can do a clean insert but it does not test to see if those values happen to be calling functions like aes_encrypt, md5, or (in this case) now(). While in most situations this is wonderful, for those situations raw sql is the only recourse.

On a side, date('Y-m-d'); should work as a PHP version of NOW() for MySQL. (It won't work for all versions of SQL though).