Natively Connect to Zoho Inventory Data in PHP

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

In order to connect to Zoho Inventory, set the following connection properties:

• OrganizationId: set this to the ID associated with your specific Zoho Inventory organization
• InitiateOAuth: set the to "GETANDREFRESH"
• AccountsServer (Optional): set this full Account Server URL (only when manually refreshing the OAuth token)

The connectors use OAuth to authenticate with Zoho Inventory. For more information, refer to the Getting Started section of the Help documentation.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ZohoInventory 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC ZohoInventory Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Contacts WHERE FirstName = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ZohoInventory Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE FirstName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Katherine'));
 

Execute nonparameterized queries with .

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC ZohoInventory Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, CustomerName FROM Contacts WHERE FirstName = 'Katherine'");
 

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Zoho Inventory data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, CustomerName FROM Contacts WHERE FirstName = 'Katherine'");
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 Zoho Inventory data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Contacts WHERE FirstName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Katherine'));
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 Zoho Inventory-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.