Configuration

The various “fetch” methods of the SQL connector take the same parameters:

Parameter	Data type	Description
driver	string	Name of the database system to connect to, taken from the list of available ADODB drivers. See http://phplens.com/adodb/supported.databases.html
server	string	Address of the server to connect to.
user	string	User name to use to connect to the database.
password	string	Password to use for the given user.
database	string	Name of the database to connect to.
query	string	The actual query to execute.
init	string	SQL queries to be sent before the actual query (defined in parameter query) is executed. This is typically used to temporarily change the encoding. Example: SET NAMES 'UTF8';
fetchMode	string	(available since version 1.1.0) Used to choose ADODB’s fetch mode, which influences the type of array returned by the recordset. Set to: 1 for a numerical array 2 for an associative array 3 for both Not setting this value will fall back on the default behavior, which is unpredictable as it depends on each driver. For more information refer to http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-adodb.htm#adodb_fetch_mode

Connection methods

The current implementation of the SQL Connector only uses the classic way of setting up a connection:

$adodbObject = ADONewConnection($parameters['driver']);
$adodbObject->Connect(
        $parameters['server'],
        $parameters['user'],
        $parameters['password'],
        $parameters['database']
);

that is, with the four standard parameters: server, user, password and database. This does not work for all database systems, but I currently had no use for more, nor a proper setup to test with other database system. The current version of the SQL connector was tested only with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

If you encounter problems connecting to some database system, please report an issue in the dedicated bug tracker indicating as clearly as possible what connection syntax you would need.