Natively Connect to Snapchat Ads Data in PHP

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

Create an OAuth application to connect to Snapchat Ads. See the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Additionally, you can optionally set AccountId to provide a default Account ID (meaning it won't need to be manually provided in the WHERE clause). If the AccountId is not specified, the first account in the Accounts view is used.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SnapchatAds 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC SnapchatAds Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Campaigns WHERE Id = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SnapchatAds Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Campaigns WHERE Id = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('123'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SnapchatAds Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT AccountId, Name FROM Campaigns WHERE Id = '123'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Snapchat Ads data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT AccountId, Name FROM Campaigns WHERE Id = '123'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["AccountId"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Snapchat Ads data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Campaigns WHERE Id = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('123'));
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 Snapchat Ads-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.