Natively Connect to Oracle Service Cloud Data in PHP

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

Using Basic Authentication

You must set the following to authenticate to Oracle Service Cloud:

• Url: The Url of the account to connect to.
• User: The username of the authenticating account.
• Password: The password of the authenticating account.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Oracle Service Cloud by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OracleServiceCloud 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC OracleServiceCloud Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OracleServiceCloud Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('12'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OracleServiceCloud Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, LookupName FROM Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = 12");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Oracle Service Cloud data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, LookupName FROM Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = 12");
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 Oracle Service Cloud data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('12'));
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 Oracle Service Cloud-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.