Natively Connect to Salesloft Data in PHP

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

SalesLoft authenticates using the OAuth authentication standard or an API Key. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with SalesLoft using the browser.

Using OAuth

For OAuth authentication, create an OAuth app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the OAuth section in the Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Using APIKey

Alternatively, you can authenticate with an APIKey. Provision an API key from the SalesLoft user interface: https://accounts.salesloft.com/oauth/applications/. You will receive a Key which will be used when issuing requests.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SalesLoft 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC SalesLoft Source","user","password"); ... odbc_close($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 Accounts WHERE Country = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SalesLoft Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE Country = ?"); $success = odbc_execute($query, array('Canada'));

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SalesLoft Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, Name FROM Accounts WHERE Country = 'Canada'");

Process Results

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

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