Natively Connect to Oracle Eloqua Data in PHP

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

There are two authentication methods available for connecting to Oracle Eloqua: Login and OAuth. The Login method requires you to have the Company, User, and Password of the user.

If you do not have access to the username and password or do not wish to require them, you can use OAuth authentication. OAuth is better suited for allowing other users to access their own data. Using login credentials is better suited for accessing your own data.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OracleEloqua 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.

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

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

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

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OracleEloqua Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, ActualCost FROM Campaign");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Oracle Eloqua data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, ActualCost FROM Campaign");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Name"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Oracle Eloqua data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Campaign 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 Oracle Eloqua-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.