Natively Connect to Azure Analysis Services Data in PHP

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

To connect to Azure Analysis Services, set the Url property to a valid server, for instance, asazure://southcentralus.asazure.windows.net/server, in addition to authenticating. Optionally, set Database to distinguish which Azure database on the server to connect to.

Azure Analysis Services uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Azure Analysis Services using the browser. You can connect without setting any connection properties for your user credentials. See the Help documentation for more information.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Azure Analysis Services by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AAS 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC AAS Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Customer WHERE Country = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AAS Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Country = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Australia'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AAS Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Country, Education FROM Customer WHERE Country = 'Australia'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Azure Analysis Services data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Country, Education FROM Customer WHERE Country = 'Australia'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Country"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Azure Analysis Services data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Country = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Australia'));
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 Analysis Services-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.