Natively Connect to SAP Business One Data in PHP

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

To authenticate to SAP Business One you must provide the and properties.

To connect to data, specify . This is your SAP Business One Service Layer root URL.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to SAP Business One by calling the or methods. To close connections, use or .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAPBusinessOne 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC SAPBusinessOne Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 DocType = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

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

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAPBusinessOne Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DocEntry, DocType FROM Orders");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAP Business One data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DocEntry, DocType FROM Orders");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["DocEntry"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAP Business One data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE DocType = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('dDocument_Items'));
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 SAP Business One-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.