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

Drop the CData ODBC Driver for Printify into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build Printify-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to Printify 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 Printify Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Profile.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Printify (see below).

Printify API Profile Settings

In order to authenticate to Printify, you'll need to provide your API Key. To get your API Key navigate to My Profile, then Connections. In the Connections section you will be able to generate your Personal Access Token (API Key) and set your Token Access Scopes. Personal Access Tokens are valid for one year. An expired Personal Access Token can be re-generated using the same steps after it expires. Set the API Key to your Personal Access Token in the ProfileSettings property to connect.

Establish a Connection

Open the connection to Printify 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 Tags WHERE Status = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

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

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC API Source","user","password"); $query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, ShippingMethod FROM Tags WHERE Status = 'pending'");

Process Results

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

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