how do i ignore the backticks in codeigniter when using active records? i need to order by cases

Question

how do i ignore the backticks in codeigniter when using active records? i need to order by cases

case when roll_number is null then 1 else 0 end,
         


        

Answer 1

Thanks for your answers...

I figured out that in active records when using $this->db->order_by() you can't skip the backticks.

So ended up using $this->db->query($sql); where I assigned my normal mysql query to the $sql variable