CodeIgniter - return only one row?

Question

At the moment if I am doing a query on the database that should only return one row, using:

...query stuff...
$query = $this->db->get();
$ret = $query-         


        

Answer 1

To make the code clear that you are intending to get the first row, CodeIgniter now allows you to use:

if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
    return $query->first_row();
}

To retrieve the first row.