This is a simple ODBC connector for Laravel 5.
Add this to the require section in your composer.json file
"litesrv/odbc": "^1.0"
In your config/app.php file add the Service Provider to the service providers array like so...
'LiteSrv\Odbc\ServiceProvider',
Now in your config/database.php you will need to add your connection details, it'll look something like this...
'odbc' => [
'driver' => 'odbc',
'dsn' => 'odbc:DB_CONNECTION_STRING', //
'host' => 'DB_HOST',
'database' => 'DB_NAME,
'username' => 'DB_USERNAME',
'password' => 'DB_PASSWORD',
],
To use SQL Server or other database engines, set the grammar in the config:
'odbc' => [
...
'grammar' => [
'query' => Illuminate\Database\Query\Grammars\SqlServerGrammar::class,
'schema' => Illuminate\Database\Schema\Grammars\SqlServerGrammar::class,
],
],
Now in your app you can do something like...
$data = DB::connection('odbc')->get('tableName')->all();
Alternatively, in an Eloquent model you could something like this
class Users extends Eloquent {
protected $connection = 'odbc';
}
Dependant upon your database configuration, I personally had some difficulty in working out what the DB_CONNECTION_STRING needed to be.
This was some trial and error (with a hell of a lot of Googling!) but you could either use a path, something like...
'dsn' => 'odbc:\\\\path\to\my\database',
Or a connection name
'dsn' => 'odbc:\\\\my-connection-name',
Hopefully, this will help you!