Natively Connect to Tally Data in PHP

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

Set the following connection properties to connect to Tally Instance:

• Url: Set this to the URL for your Tally instance. For example: http://localhost:9000.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Tally 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC Tally Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Company WHERE CompanyNumber = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Tally Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Company WHERE CompanyNumber = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('1000'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Tally Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, Address FROM Company WHERE CompanyNumber = '1000'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Tally data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Name, Address FROM Company WHERE CompanyNumber = '1000'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Name"] . "\n";
}

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Tally data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Company WHERE CompanyNumber = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('1000'));
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 Tally-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.