Natively Connect to Instagram Data in PHP

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

Instagram uses the OAuth 2 authentication standard. Obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL by registering an app with Instagram. See the help documentation for a guide.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Instagram 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC Instagram Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Media WHERE TagName = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Instagram Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Media WHERE TagName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('goldfish'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Instagram Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Link, LikesCount FROM Media");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Instagram data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Link, LikesCount FROM Media");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Link"] . "\n";
}

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

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