Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing escaping to be turned off if the value of a query was NULL.
diff --git a/system/database/DB_active_rec.php b/system/database/DB_active_rec.php
index b2638f2..d585806 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_active_rec.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_active_rec.php
@@ -447,14 +447,19 @@
 					$k .= ' =';

 				}

 			

-				if ($v != '')

+				if ($v !== '' AND $v !== NULL)

 				{		

 					$v = ' '.$this->escape($v);

 				}

 			}

 			else

 			{

-				$k = $this->_protect_identifiers($k, TRUE);

+			

+				if ($escape === TRUE)

+				{

+					$k = $this->_protect_identifiers($k, TRUE);

+				}

+				

 			}

 

 			$this->ar_where[] = $prefix.$k.$v;

diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 62e4541..1efaa6b 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
     <li>Active Record

     	<ul>

     		<li>Added the ability to prevent escaping in having() clauses.</li>

-    		</ul>

+    		<li>Fixed a bug that wasn't allowing escaping to be turned off if the value of a query was NULL.</li>

+    	</ul>

     </li>

     <li>Config

     	<ul>

diff --git a/user_guide/database/active_record.html b/user_guide/database/active_record.html
index a9889d5..5fbd3bc 100644
--- a/user_guide/database/active_record.html
+++ b/user_guide/database/active_record.html
@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@
 	<li><strong>Simple key/value method:</strong>

 

 	<code>$this->db->where('name', $name);

-	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name = 'Joe'

-	</code>

+	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name = 'Joe'	</code>

 	

 	<p>Notice that the equal sign is added for you.</p>

 	

@@ -229,11 +228,7 @@
 	<code>$this->db->where('name', $name);<br />

 	$this->db->where('title', $title);<br />

 	$this->db->where('status', $status);

-	<br /><br />// WHERE = name 'Joe' AND title = 'boss' AND status = 'active'

-	</code>

-	

-

-	</li>

+	<br /><br />// WHERE = name 'Joe' AND title = 'boss' AND status = 'active'	</code>	</li>

 	

 	<li><strong>Custom key/value method:</strong>

 	

@@ -241,12 +236,7 @@
 	

 	<code>$this->db->where('name !=', $name);<br />

 	$this->db->where('id <', $id);

-	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name != 'Joe' AND id < 45

-	</code>

-

-

-	

-	</li>

+	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name != 'Joe' AND id < 45	</code>	</li>

 	<li><strong>Associative array method:</strong>

 

 

@@ -254,29 +244,27 @@
 	$array = array('name' => $name, 'title' => $title, 'status' => $status);<br /><br />

 	

 	$this->db->where($array);

-	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name = 'Joe' AND title = 'boss' AND status = 'active'

-	</code>

+	<br /><br />// Produces: WHERE name = 'Joe' AND title = 'boss' AND status = 'active'	</code>

 

 	<p>You can include your own operators using this method as well:</p>

 

 	<code>

 	$array = array('name !=' => $name, 'id <' => $id, 'date >' => $date);<br /><br />

 	

-	$this->db->where($array);</code>

-

-	</li>

+	$this->db->where($array);</code>	</li>

 		<li><strong>Custom string:</strong>

 		

 		<p>You can write your own clauses manually:</p>

 

 		<code>

 		$where = "name='Joe' AND status='boss' OR status='active'";<br /><br />

-		$this->db->where($where);</code>

-

-	</li>

-</ol>

+		$this->db->where($where);</code></li>

+	</ol>

 

 

+<p>$this-&gt;db-&gt;where() accepts an optional third parameter. If you set it to FALSE, CodeIgniter will not try to protect your field or table names with backticks.</p>

+<p><code> 		$this-&gt;db-&gt;where('MATCH (field) AGAINST (&quot;value&quot;)', NULL, FALSE);<br />

+</code></p>

 <h2>$this->db->or_where();</h2>

 <p>This function is identical to the one above, except that multiple instances are joined by OR:</p>