ccovey/odbc-driver-l4

l4-odbc-driver

Laravel 4 ODBC, _(*1)

Installation

To Install this in your Laravel 4.1 app add, _(*2)

require {
  "ccovey/odbc-driver-l4": "1.1.x"
}

And then run, _(*3)

composer install, _(*4)

This will download the required package from Packagist.org, _(*5)

Then in your app/config directory open app.php and find, _(*6)

'Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider',, _(*7)

And replace it with, _(*8)

'Ccovey\ODBCDriver\ODBCDriverServiceProvider',, _(*9)

Finally be sure to add the odbc driver with connection information to the config/database.php file like so:, _(*10)

'default' => 'mysql',
    'connections' => array(
        'mysql' => array(
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'host' => 'localhost',
            'database' => 'database',
            'username' => 'root',
            'password' => '',
            'charset' => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix' => '',
        ),
        'sqlsrv' => array(
            'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
            'host' => 'localhost',
            'database' => 'database',
            'username' => 'root',
            'password' => '',
            'prefix' => '',
        ),
        'odbc' => array(
            'driver' => 'odbc',
            'dsn' => 'Driver={iSeries Access ODBC Driver};System=my_system_name;',
            'grammar' => 'DB2',
            'username' => 'foo',
            'password' => 'bar',
            'database' => '',
        ),
    ),

Note that database is a required value in the array., _(*11)

Notes

To add a custom grammar add your file to ODBCDriver/Grammars with the name you would like to use (currently there is a DB2 grammar file if you would like a reference). Then in your odbc config array add the class name to the grammar key. If you would like to submit a grammar for use in the package please submit a pull request and I will get it in asap., _(*12)

If you would like to use a Laravel provided file just add that instead. For example if you want to use SQL Server Gramamr instead you can add like so:, _(*13)

```php 'odbc' => array( 'driver' => 'odbc', 'dsn' => 'some driver', 'grammar' => 'SqlServerGrammar', 'username' => 'foo', 'password' => 'bar', 'database' => '', ),, <sub>(*14)</sub>