Natively Connect to Shippo Data in PHP

Drop the CData ODBC Driver for Shippo into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build Shippo-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to Shippo 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 Shippo Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Shippo.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Shippo (see below).

Shippo API Profile Settings

In order to authenticate to Shippo, you will need an API Key. You can find this API key under 'Settings' > 'API' > 'Generate Token'. After generating your key, set it to the APIKey in ProfileSettings connection property.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Shippo 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 ShopApp = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

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

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT ObjectId , OrderStatus FROM Orders WHERE ShopApp = 'Shippo'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Shippo data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT ObjectId , OrderStatus FROM Orders WHERE ShopApp = 'Shippo'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["ObjectId "] . "\n";
}

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

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