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Natively Connect to SAP Data in PHP
The CData ODBC driver for SAP enables you to create PHP applications with connectivity to SAP data. Leverage the native support for ODBC in PHP.
Drop the CData ODBC Driver for SAP into your LAMP or WAMP stack to build SAP-connected Web applications. This article shows how to use PHP's ODBC built-in functions to connect to SAP data, execute queries, and output the results.
About SAP Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from SAP. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Access every edition of SAP, including SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver, SAP ERP / ECC 6.0, and SAP S/4 HANA on premises data that is exposed by the RFC.
- Perform actions like sending IDoc or IDoc XML files to the server and creating schemas for functions or queries through SQL stored procedures.
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Connect optimally depending on where a customer's SAP instance is hosted.
- Customers using SAP S/4HANA cloud public edition will use SAP NetWeaver Gateway connectivity
- Customers using SAP S/4HANA private edition will use either SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver Gateway connectivity.
While most users leverage our tools to replicate SAP data to databases or data warehouses, many also integrate live SAP data with analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Excel.
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.
You can connect to SAP systems using either librfc32.dll, librfc32u.dll, NetWeaver, or Web Services (SOAP). Set the ConnectionType connection property to CLASSIC (librfc32.dll), CLASSIC_UNICODE (librfc32u.dll), NETWEAVER, or SOAP.
If you are using the SOAP interface, set the Client, RFCUrl, SystemNumber, User, and Password properties, under the Authentication section.
Otherwise, set Host, User, Password, Client, and SystemNumber.
Note: We do not distribute the librfc32.dll or other SAP assemblies. You must find them from your SAP installation and install them on your machine.
For more information, see this guide on obtaining the connection properties needed to connect to any SAP system.
Establish a Connection
Open the connection to SAP by calling the odbc_connect or odbc_pconnect methods. To close connections, use odbc_close or odbc_close_all.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAPERP 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.
$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC SAPERP Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 MARA WHERE ERNAM = ?");
Execute Queries
Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAPERP Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM MARA WHERE ERNAM = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('BEHRMANN'));
Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAPERP Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT MANDT, MBRSH FROM MARA");
Process Results
Access a row in the result set as an array with the odbc_fetch_array function.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAP data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT MANDT, MBRSH FROM MARA");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($query)){
echo $row["MANDT"] . "\n";
}
Display the result set in an HTML table with the odbc_result_all function.
$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC SAP data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM MARA WHERE ERNAM = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('BEHRMANN'));
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 SAP-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.
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SAP ERP ODBC Driver
The SAP ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live SAP ERP, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.
With the SAP ODBC Driver, accessing SAP R/3 and SAP ERP is as easy as querying a database.
