Natively Connect to Bugsnag Data in PHP

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

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Bugsnag Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Bugsnag.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Bugsnag (see below).

Bugsnag API Profile Settings

Generate your Personal Auth Token in BugSnag under My Account settings.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Collaborators WHERE IsAdmin = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Collaborators WHERE IsAdmin = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('true'));
  

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, OrganizationId FROM Collaborators WHERE IsAdmin = 'true'");
  

Process Results

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

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