Natively Connect to Adobe Experience Manager Data in PHP

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

The driver connects to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) instances that expose the JCR repository over WebDAV. It supports both on-premises AEM and AEM as a Cloud Service deployments.

To establish a connection, set the following properties:

• URL: The WebDAV-enabled JCR server URL.
  • AEM as a Cloud Service: https://author-pXXXXX-eXXXXX.adobeaemcloud.com/crx/server
  • Local development: http://localhost:4502/crx/server
• User: Your AEM username.
• Password: Your AEM password.

Note: Tables are dynamically generated based on the JCR repository structure. Ensure that the configured user has sufficient permissions to access the required content paths in the AEM repository.

Establish a Connection

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AdobeExperienceManager 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.

$conn = odbc_pconnect("CData ODBC AdobeExperienceManager Source","user","password");
...
odbc_close($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 Content WHERE Name = ?");

Execute Queries

Execute prepared statements with odbc_execute.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AdobeExperienceManager Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Content WHERE Name = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('example'));
  

Execute nonparameterized queries with odbc_exec.

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC AdobeExperienceManager Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, Name FROM Content WHERE Name = 'example'");
  

Process Results

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

$conn = odbc_connect("CData ODBC Adobe Experience Manager data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_exec($conn, "SELECT Id, Name FROM Content WHERE Name = 'example'");
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 Adobe Experience Manager data Source","user","password");
$query = odbc_prepare($conn, "SELECT * FROM Content WHERE Name = ?");
$success = odbc_execute($query, array('example'));
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 Adobe Experience Manager-specific adaptations of the PHP community documentation for all ODBC functions.