Natively Connect to ActiveCampaign Data in PHP

Drop the CData ODBC Driver for ActiveCampaign into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build ActiveCampaign-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to ActiveCampaign data, execute queries, and output the results.

Configure a DSN

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

ActiveCampaign supports authenticating with the API Key. To connect to ActiveCampaign, set the following:

• URL: This can be found in your account on the My Settings page under the Developer tab. For example: https://{yourAccountName}.api-us1.com
• APIKey: This can be found in your account on the Settings page under the Developer tab. Each user in your ActiveCampaign account has their own unique API key.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to ActiveCampaign by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign Source","user","password");

Connections opened with are closed when the script ends. Connections opened with the method are still open after the script ends. This enables other scripts to share that connection when they connect with the same credentials. By sharing connections among your scripts, you can save system resources, and queries execute faster.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($conn); //persistent connection must be closed explicitly

Create Prepared Statements

Create prepared statements and parameterized queries with the function.

$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE LastName = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE LastName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Smith'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT LastName, Email FROM Contacts WHERE LastName = 'Smith'");
 

Process Results

Access a row in the result set as an array with the function.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT LastName, Email FROM Contacts WHERE LastName = 'Smith'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["LastName"] . "\n";
}

Display the result set in an HTML table with the function.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ActiveCampaign data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE LastName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Smith'));
if($success)
 odbc_result_all($query);

More Example Queries

You will find complete information on the driver's supported SQL in the help documentation. The code examples above are ActiveCampaign-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.