Natively Connect to Printful Data in PHP

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

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Printful Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Printful.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Printful (see below).

Printful API Profile Settings

In order to authenticate to Printful, you'll need to provide your API Key. To get your API Key, first go to 'Settings' then 'Stores'. Select the Store you would like to connect to, then click the 'Add API Access' button to generate an API Key. Set the API Key in the ProfileSettings property to connect.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Orders WHERE Status = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Status = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('inprocess'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, Store FROM Orders WHERE Status = 'inprocess'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Printful data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, Store FROM Orders WHERE Status = 'inprocess'");
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 Printful data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Status = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('inprocess'));
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 Printful-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.