This section provides a walk-through to writing ODBC data access code to SQL Server in PHP, using the build-in Unified ODBC API.

Connecting from PHP

See Getting Started for the prerequisite information you need to deploy the driver and configure the connection to SQL Server.

Dependencies describes the necessary steps to configure Unified ODBC. Once it is prepared, refer to Connecting to connect to SQL Server.

Executing SQL

Use Unified ODBC functions to execute SQL on SQL Server:

• See Querying Data to execute SELECT statements and iterate over the results.
• See Modifying Data to execute other SQL data manipulation statements.
• See Parameterized Statements to execute parameterized statements. Parameterized statements provide a means to efficiently execute queries more than once and to mitigate SQL injection attacks.

Executing Stored Procedures

See Executing Stored Procedures to execute stored procedures as SQL statements.