Natively Connect to Jira Data in PHP

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

To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JIRA 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC JIRA Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Issues WHERE ReporterDisplayName = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JIRA Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Issues WHERE ReporterDisplayName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Bob'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JIRA Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Projects.LeadName, Issues.Summary FROM Projects, Issues WHERE Projects.Id=Issues.ProjectId");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Jira data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Projects.LeadName, Issues.Summary FROM Projects, Issues WHERE Projects.Id=Issues.ProjectId");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Summary"] . "\n";
}

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

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