codeigniter active record where, or_where?

Question

I am using Active Record on CodeIgniter. I am confused on which approach I should take. Currently, our login system let\'s the user to use username/email for the login along

Answer 1

@RidIculous is right. This is a correct way to do it:

$user = $this->db->escape($user);
$this->db->select('id,level,email,username');
$this->db->where("(email = $user OR username = $user)");
$this->db->where('password', $pass);
$query = $this->db->get('users');

Or a format I prefer (PHP 5+)

$user = $this->db->escape($user);
$query = $this->db
    ->select('id,level,email,username')
    ->where("(email = $user OR username = $user)")
    ->where('password', $pass)
    ->get('users');