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The OneNote ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Microsoft OneNote data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access OneNote like you would a database - access Notebooks, Notes, Searches, Tags, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Natively Connect to OneNote Data in PHP


The CData ODBC driver for OneNote enables you to create PHP applications with connectivity to OneNote data. Leverage the native support for ODBC in PHP.

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

OneNote uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the Help documentation for more information.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to OneNote by calling the odbc_connect or odbc_pconnect methods. To close connections, use odbc_close or odbc_close_all.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OneNote Source","user","password");

Connections opened with odbc_connect are closed when the script ends. Connections opened with the odbc_pconnect 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC OneNote Source","user","password"); ... odbc_close($conn); //persistent connection must be closed explicitly

Create Prepared Statements

Create prepared statements and parameterized queries with the odbc_prepare function.

$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Notebooks WHERE Id = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OneNote Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Notebooks WHERE Id = ?"); $success = odbc_execute($query, array('Jq74mCczmFXk1tC10GB'));

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OneNote Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, notebook_displayName FROM Notebooks WHERE Id = 'Jq74mCczmFXk1tC10GB'");

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OneNote data Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, notebook_displayName FROM Notebooks WHERE Id = 'Jq74mCczmFXk1tC10GB'"); while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){ echo $row["Id"] . "\n"; }

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC OneNote data Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Notebooks WHERE Id = ?"); $success = odbc_execute($query, array('Jq74mCczmFXk1tC10GB')); 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 OneNote-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.