Active record - same table multiple join?

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
That's the way the fields are returned by MySQL, it has nothing to do with PHP or Codeigniter.

Code:

mysql> select my_status.title from my_status;
+----------+
| title    |
+----------+
| Status A |
| Status B |
| Status C |
| Status D |
+----------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You would have to alias any identically named fields, regardless of the implementation.