How would I use ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE in my CodeIgniter model?

Question

I have a CodeIgniter/PHP Model and I want to insert some data into the database.

However, I have this set in my \'raw\' SQL query:

ON DUPLICATE KEY U         


        

Answer 1

You can tweak the active record function with minimal addition:

DB_driver.php add inside the class:

protected $OnlyReturnQuery = false;
public function onlyReturnQuery($return = true)
{
    $this->OnlyReturnQuery = $return;
}

find function query( ...and add at the very beginning:

    if ($this->OnlyReturnQuery) {
        $this->OnlyReturnQuery = false;
        return $sql;
    }

and finally in DB_active_rec.php add function:

public function insert_or_update($table='', $data=array())
{
    $this->onlyReturnQuery();
    $this->set($data);
    $insert = $this->insert($table);
    $this->onlyReturnQuery();
    $this->set($data);
    $update = $this->update($table);
    $update = preg_replace('/UPDATE.*?SET/',' ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE',$update);
    return $this->query($insert.$update);
}

Now you can use it as:

$this->db->insert_or_update('table',array $data);

Pros: uses all the active record validation Cons: it is not the best (the most proper) way of extending the function, because if you are planning to update these files, you will have to redo the procedure.

Answer 2

The link to the forum thread above is broken. I don't know of a better way than just using db->query for the call, if someone has a better solution, please post that.

$result = $this->CI->db->query(
    "INSERT INTO tablename (id, name, duplicate) VALUES (1, 'Joe', 1) ".
    "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE duplicate=duplicate+1");

I hope this helps someone looking for a solution to this.

Answer 3

The below process work for me in Codeigniter 3.0.6

public function updateOnDuplicate($table, $data ) {
    if (empty($table) || empty($data)) return false;
    $duplicate_data = array();
    foreach($data AS $key => $value) {
        $duplicate_data[] = sprintf("%s='%s'", $key, $value);
    }

    $sql = sprintf("%s ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE %s", $this->db->insert_string($table, $data), implode(',', $duplicate_data));
    $this->db->query($sql);
    return $this->db->insert_id();
}

Answer 4

Below is a code snippet I use everytime for update on duplicates:

$sql = "insert into  table_name (id, name) values(".$id.",'".$name."') on duplicate key update id=".$id.",name='".$name."'";
//Executing queries
$result = $this->db->query($sql, array($id, $name)); 

Note: column id must be primary or unique

Answer 5

Following the snippet linked by Pickett, I made a few modifications to:

1) Update it to use the new Query Builder (CI 3), formerly known as Active Record.

2) You can now pass an associative array (key => value) or an array of associative arrays. In the second form, it performs a multi-update.

I only tested it with mysqli, and it works well.

This piece of code goes in system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php

function _duplicate_insert($table, $values)
{
    $updatestr = array();
    $keystr    = array();
    $valstr    = array();

    foreach($values as $key => $val)
    {
        $updatestr[] = $key." = ".$val;
        $keystr[]    = $key;
        $valstr[]    = $val;
    }

    $sql  = "INSERT INTO ".$table." (".implode(', ',$keystr).") ";
    $sql .= "VALUES (".implode(', ',$valstr).") ";
    $sql .= "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ".implode(', ',$updatestr);

    return $sql;
}

function _multi_duplicate_insert($table, $values)
{
    $updatestr = array();
    $keystr    = array();
    $valstr    = null;
    $entries   = array();

    $temp = array_keys($values);
    $first = $values[$temp[0]];

    foreach($first as $key => $val)
    {
        $updatestr[] = $key." = VALUES(".$key.")";
        $keystr[]    = $key;
    }

    foreach($values as $entry)
    {
        $valstr = array();
        foreach($entry as $key => $val)
        {
            $valstr[] = $val;
        }
        $entries[] = '('.implode(', ', $valstr).')';
    }

    $sql  = "INSERT INTO ".$table." (".implode(', ',$keystr).") ";

    $sql .= "VALUES ".implode(', ',$entries);
    $sql .= "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ".implode(', ',$updatestr);

    return $sql;
}

And this goes into the /system/database/DB_query_builder.php file:

function on_duplicate($table = '', $set = NULL )
{
    if ( ! is_null($set))
    {
        $this->set($set);
    }

    if (count($this->qb_set) == 0)
    {
        if ($this->db_debug)
        {
            return $this->display_error('db_must_use_set');
        }
        return FALSE;
    }

    if ($table == '')
    {
        if ( ! isset($this->qb_from[0]))
        {
            if ($this->db_debug)
            {
                return $this->display_error('db_must_set_table');
            }
            return FALSE;
        }

        $table = $this->qb_from[0];
    }

    $is_multi = false;
    foreach (array_keys($set) as $k => $v) {
        if ($k === $v) {
            $is_multi = true; //is not assoc
            break;
        }
    }

    if($is_multi)
    {
        $sql = $this->_multi_duplicate_insert($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE), $this->qb_set );
    }
    else
    {
        $sql = $this->_duplicate_insert($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE), $this->qb_set );
    }

    $this->_reset_write();
    return $this->query($sql);
}

Then you can do this for a single row insert/update:

$this->db->on_duplicate('table', array('column1' => 'value', 'column2' => 'value'));

Or this for a multi insert/update:

$this->db->on_duplicate('table', array(
    array('column1' => 'value', 'column2' => 'value'),
    array('column1' => 'value', 'column2' => 'value')
));

Answer 6

Using $this->db->query() and parameters, this is how I do it. the first 4 parameters are for the insert part and the last three parameters are repeated for the on duplicate key update part.

$sql = "insert into application_committee ".
       "(application_id, member1_id, member2_id, member3_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?)".
       " on duplicate key update member1_id = ?, member2_id = ?, member3_id = ?";

$this->db->query($sql, array($appid, $member_1, $member_2, $member_3, 
                 $member_1, $member_2, $member_3);