codeigniter find by library?

Is there a codeigniter plugin that allows me to quickly create fi开发者_开发技巧nd by functions without writing code on every field in a db table?

I find myself writing a lot of functions for tables such as findbyid findbyfirstname findbyemail and so on, any libraries already written to speedup my dev time? i tried googling but i havent come across any.

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If you mean you have to write multiple methods in your model to find rows in a table by a specific field, you could just pass an associative array containing the fields and values you want to search to a generic function - something like:

function search_mytable($search=array()) {

    $this->db->select('mytable.*');
    $this->db->from('mytable');
    if(!empty($search) 
        $this->db->where($search);
}

There's more information about what you can pass the CI active record where method here http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/active_record.html#select

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If it's just simple data retrieval, you can just do something like this:

function find($column, $value)
{    
    $this->db->where($column, $value);
    //etc
}

for simple queries. As BrynJ suggests, the Active Record class is rather flexible when it comes to taking parameters.