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Natively Connect to QuickBooks Online Data in PHP
The CData ODBC driver for QuickBooks Online enables you to create PHP applications with connectivity to QuickBooks Online data. Leverage the native support for ODBC in PHP.
Drop the CData ODBC Driver for QuickBooks Online into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build QuickBooks Online-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to QuickBooks Online data, execute queries, and output the results.
About QuickBooks Online Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from QuickBooks Online. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Realize high-performance data reads thanks to push-down query optimization for complex operations like filters and aggregations.
- Read, write, update, and delete QuickBooks Online data.
- Run reports, download attachments, and send or void invoices directly from code using SQL stored procedures.
- Connect securely using OAuth and modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, and ECC.
Many users access live QuickBooks Online data from preferred analytics tools like Power BI and Excel, directly from databases with federated access, and use CData solutions to easily integrate QuickBooks Online data with automated workflows for business-to-business communications.
For more information on how customers are solving problems with CData's QuickBooks Online solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/360-view-of-your-customers.
Getting Started
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.
QuickBooks Online uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to log in through the browser. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can obtain your own by registering an app with Intuit. Additionally, if you want to connect to sandbox data, set UseSandbox to true.
See the Getting Started chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.
Establish a Connection
Open the connection to QuickBooks Online by calling the odbc_connect or odbc_pconnect methods. To close connections, use odbc_close or odbc_close_all.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooksOnline 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.
$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC QuickBooksOnline Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Customers WHERE FullyQualifiedName = ?");
Execute Queries
Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooksOnline Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FullyQualifiedName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Cook, Brian'));
Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooksOnline Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DisplayName, Balance FROM Customers");
Process Results
Access a row in the result set as an array with the odbc_fetch_array function.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooks Online data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT DisplayName, Balance FROM Customers");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
echo $row["DisplayName"] . "\n";
}
Display the result set in an HTML table with the odbc_result_all function.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC QuickBooks Online data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FullyQualifiedName = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('Cook, Brian'));
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 QuickBooks Online-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.
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QuickBooks Online ODBC Driver
The QuickBooks Online ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from QuickBooks Online, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.
Access QuickBooks Online data like you would a database - read, write, and update Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.
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