insert without data

it's the Model itself that does this check as it's expecting to work with data. The Query Builder, on the other hand, doesn't care. So you should be able to do something like:

PHP Code:

db_connect()->table('gallery')->insert([]);

or 

db_connect()->query('INSERT INTO gallery VALUES();'); 


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