Natively Connect to Dynamics 365 Data in PHP

Drop the CData ODBC Driver for Dynamics 365 into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build Dynamics 365-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to Dynamics 365 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.

Edition and OrganizationUrl are required connection properties. The Dynamics 365 connector supports connecting to the following editions: CustomerService, FieldService, FinOpsOnline, FinOpsOnPremise, HumanResources, Marketing, ProjectOperations and Sales.

For Dynamics 365 Business Central, use the separate Dynamics 365 Business Central driver.

OrganizationUrl is the URL to your Dynamics 365 organization. For instance, https://orgcb42e1d0.crm.dynamics.com

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Dynamics 365 by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Dynamics365 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC Dynamics365 Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 GoalHeadings WHERE Name = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Dynamics365 Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM GoalHeadings WHERE Name = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('MyAccount'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Dynamics365 Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT GoalHeadingId, Name FROM GoalHeadings WHERE Name = 'MyAccount'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Dynamics 365 data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT GoalHeadingId, Name FROM GoalHeadings WHERE Name = 'MyAccount'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["GoalHeadingId"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Dynamics 365 data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM GoalHeadings WHERE Name = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('MyAccount'));
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 Dynamics 365-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.