Use the following code to concat data to existing records:
$this->db->where('userId',$id);
$this->db->set('keywords', 'CONCAT(keywords,\',\',\'' .$addNewKw. '\')', FALSE);
$this->db->update('myTable');
Here 'keywords' is column name of MYSQL table
'$addNewKw' is the data which you want to append
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