codeigniter printing the last executed query code example

Example 1: codeigniter print last sql query

print_r($this->db->last_query());

Example 2: codeigniter get last query

$this->db->last_query();

Returns the last query that was run (the query string, not the result). Example:
$str = $this->db->last_query();

// Produces: SELECT * FROM sometable....