Natively Connect to BigQuery Data in PHP

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

Getting Started

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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.

Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. To access Google APIs on behalf of individual users, you can use the embedded credentials or you can register your own OAuth app.

OAuth also enables you to use a service account to connect on behalf of users in a Google Apps domain. To authenticate with a service account, register an application to obtain the OAuth JWT values.

In addition to the OAuth values, specify the DatasetId and ProjectId. See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleBigQuery 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC GoogleBigQuery Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Orders WHERE ShipCity = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleBigQuery Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE ShipCity = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('New York'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleBigQuery Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT OrderName, Freight FROM Orders");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC BigQuery data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT OrderName, Freight FROM Orders");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["OrderName"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC BigQuery data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE ShipCity = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('New York'));
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 BigQuery-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.