Natively Connect to Azure Active Directory Data in PHP

Drop the CData ODBC Driver for Azure Active Directory into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build Azure Active Directory-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to Azure Active Directory 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.

Azure Active Directory uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the OAuth section in the Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Azure Active Directory by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AzureAD 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC AzureAD Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Domains WHERE isVerified = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AzureAD Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Domains WHERE isVerified = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('TRUE'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AzureAD Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT id, availabilityStatus FROM Domains WHERE isVerified = TRUE");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Azure Active Directory data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT id, availabilityStatus FROM Domains WHERE isVerified = TRUE");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["id"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Azure Active Directory data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Domains WHERE isVerified = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('TRUE'));
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 Azure Active Directory-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.