Natively Connect to Google Drive Data in PHP

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

You can connect to Google APIs on behalf of individual users or on behalf of a domain. Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. See the "Getting Started" section of the help documentation for a guide.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleDrive 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC GoogleDrive Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Files WHERE Starred = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleDrive Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Starred = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('true'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC GoogleDrive Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, Size FROM Files");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Google Drive data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, Size FROM Files");
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 Google Drive data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Starred = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($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 Google Drive-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.