Natively Connect to HarperDB Data in PHP

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

Set the Server, User, and Password connection properties to connect to HarperDB. Set UseSSL to secure connections with TLS/SSL.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC HarperDB 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.

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

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

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

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC HarperDB Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT City, CompanyName FROM Customers WHERE Country = 'US'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC HarperDB data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT City, CompanyName FROM Customers WHERE Country = 'US'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["City"] . "\n";
}

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

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