Natively Connect to Jira Assets Data in PHP

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

Jira Assets supports connecting and authenticating via the APIToken.

To generate an API token:

1. Log in to your Atlassian account.
2. Navigate to Security < Create and manage API Token < Create API Token.

Atlassian generates and then displays the API token.

After you have generated the API token, set these parameters:

• AuthScheme: APIToken.
• User: The login of the authenticating user.
• APIToken: The API token you just generated.

You are now ready to connect and authenticate to Jira Assets.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JiraAssets 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC JiraAssets Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Objects WHERE Label = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JiraAssets Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Objects WHERE Label = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('SYD-1'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC JiraAssets Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT ID, Name FROM Objects WHERE Label = 'SYD-1'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Jira Assets data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT ID, Name FROM Objects WHERE Label = 'SYD-1'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["ID"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Jira Assets data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Objects WHERE Label = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('SYD-1'));
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 Assets-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.