[database] CodeIgniter - return only one row?

At the moment if I am doing a query on the database that should only return one row, using:

...query stuff...
$query = $this->db->get();
$ret = $query->result();
return $ret[0]->campaign_id;

Is there a CodeIgniter function to return the first row? something like $query->row();

Or even better would be the ability to, if there was only one row, to just use the query object directly.

e.g. $query->campaign_id;

Change only in two line and you are getting actually what you want.

$query = $this->db->get();
$ret = $query->row();
return $ret->campaign_id;

try it.

class receipt_model extends CI_Model {

   public function index(){

      $this->db->select('*');

      $this->db->from('donor_details');

      $this->db->order_by('donor_id','desc');

      $query=$this->db->get();

      $row=$query->row();

      return $row;
 }

}

We can get a single using limit in query

$query = $this->db->get_where('mytable', array('id' => $id), $limit, $offset);

 $query = $this->db->get_where('mytable', array('id' => $id), $limit, $offset);

If you require to get only one record from database table using codeigniter query then you can do it using row(). we can easily return one row from database in codeigniter.

$data = $this->db->get("items")->row();

This is better way as it gives you result in a single line:

$this->db->query("Your query")->row()->campaign_id;

You can do like this

$q  = $this->db->get()->row();

return $q->campaign_id;

Documentation : http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/results.html

$this->db->get()->row()->campaign_id;

To make the code clear that you are intending to get the first row, CodeIgniter now allows you to use:

if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
    return $query->first_row();
}

To retrieve the first row.

To add on to what Alisson said you could check to see if a row is returned.

// Query stuff ...
$query = $this->db->get();

if ($query->num_rows() > 0)
{
    $row = $query->row(); 
    return $row->campaign_id;
}

return null; // or whatever value you want to return for no rows found