Natively Connect to QuickBooks Time Data in PHP

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

TSheets uses the OAuth2 standard for authentication and authorization. To construct your own OAuth app and connect to data, refer to OAuth section in the Help.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC TSheets 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC TSheets Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Timesheets WHERE JobCodeType = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC TSheets Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Timesheets WHERE JobCodeType = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('regular'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC TSheets Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, JobcodeId FROM Timesheets WHERE JobCodeType = 'regular'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooks Time data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, JobcodeId FROM Timesheets WHERE JobCodeType = 'regular'");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
 echo $row["Id"] . "\n";
}

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

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