Natively Connect to SurveyMonkey Data in PHP

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

SurveyMonkey uses the OAuth 2 authentication standard. See the Getting Started section in the help documentation for a guide.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SurveyMonkey 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC SurveyMonkey Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 MySurvey_Responses WHERE ChoiceText = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SurveyMonkey Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM MySurvey_Responses WHERE ChoiceText = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('blue'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SurveyMonkey Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT RespondentId, ChoiceId FROM MySurvey_Responses");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SurveyMonkey data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT RespondentId, ChoiceId FROM MySurvey_Responses");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["RespondentId"] . "\n";
}

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

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