How to Force Code Igniter to NOT to excape queries?

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
Do you mean:

Code:

WHERE `comment`.`videoid` = '2'

? Try:

Code:

$criteria = array(
    'comment.videoid'=>(int)$videoid,
    'comment.isactive'=>1,
    'user.userid'=>'comment.userid'
);

The above post will prevent CI from escaping fields, but not values if it thinks the value is a string