Laravel and stored procedures SQL

Question

I have a stored procedure that client has made. Now I have to access it and process data in my laravel app.

I have no problems with connecting to SQL but the problems starts when passing in parameters.

Here is my code:

$connections = DB::connection('sqlsrv')
    ->select(EXEC [stored].[procedure].[here] $param1, $param2);

The error I got back is: The active result for the query contains no fields

I have searched for many hours in forums and here is what I have found:

$connections = DB::connection('sqlsrv')
->select(DB::raw('EXEC [stored].[procedure].[here] $param1, $param2'));

Error I got back is: The active result for the query contains no fields.

I have installed SQL driver and OBDC driver.

Any help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

Don't know if this will help but this answer suggests you put your DB::raw around just the params instead of the EXEC stored.proc.name .

So instead of

 $connections = DB::connection('sqlsrv')->select(DB::raw('EXEC [stored].[procedure].[here] $param1, $param2'));

Try

 $connections = DB::connection('sqlsrv')->select('EXEC stored.proc.name' . DB::raw($param1, $param2));

Answer 2

OK. So I found out the issue.

It turns out the client sent me over a variable with xml. As far as I figured out from Microsoft docs then you can t pass xml as a varable because if you call the SP from an application it is gonna pass it as an array and application can t parse xml into array directly. You have to do it on your own.

What can be done instead is to pass xml as a value of an array and then take it from there.