[eluser]nuwanda[/eluser]
I'm trying to cut down on my db writes. I have several methods where I'm looping through arrays and inserting the new data one record at a time.
In raw mysql you can do this to insert multiple records in one query:
Code:
INSERT
INTO
table
(column_a, column_b, column_c)
VALUES
(1, 2, 3),
(4, 5, 6),
(7, 8, 9)
;
Now, to accomplish this in CI, I could construct my own query string (like above) by looping, but that seems cumbersome.
I tried using multiple AR sets:
Code:
start loop{
$this->db->set($new_record_data);
}
$this->db->insert($table);
But that only inserts the last set.
I also tried passing a multidimensional associative array to the insert function but that threw a mysql error. Obviously the insert can only handle associative arrays one at a time.
Then I considered transactions. If I start a trans, fire my queries, then end the trans, does that bulk write my data or does it just loop through them one at a time, which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Anyone got any ideas about this?
