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

Access DocuSign like you would a database - access Accounts, Envelopes, Folders, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Natively Connect to DocuSign Data in PHP


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

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

To connect to DocuSign, set the following connection properties:

  • UseSandbox: indicates whether current user account is sandbox or not (FALSE by default)
  • AccountId (optional): set it in the connection string if you have access to multiple Account Ids

Authenticating to DocuSign

DocuSign 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 more information.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC DocuSign 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC DocuSign Source","user","password"); ... odbc_close($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 Documents WHERE DocumentName = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC DocuSign Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Documents WHERE DocumentName = ?"); $success = odbc_execute($query, array('TPSReport'));

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC DocuSign Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DocumentId, DocumentName FROM Documents WHERE DocumentName = 'TPSReport'");

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC DocuSign data Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DocumentId, DocumentName FROM Documents WHERE DocumentName = 'TPSReport'"); while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){ echo $row["DocumentId"] . "\n"; }

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

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