Question

I am using the sqlsrv ms drivers for php, which work fine (tested with normal queries). I have also tested it with running a stored procedure to update a table data, which also works.

Now I want to use it to run a stored procedure, and I want to retrieve the response. How can this be done?

$server = "...the server address...";
$options = array("UID"=>"...the username...","PWD"=>"...the password...",
  "Database" => "...the database..."
  );

$conn = sqlsrv_connect($server, $options);

if ($conn === false) {die("<pre>".print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));}

$tsql_callSP = "{call ...the stored proc...( ?, ?)}";

$params = array( 
                 array("...first value in...", SQLSRV_PARAM_IN),
                 array("...second value in...", SQLSRV_PARAM_IN)
               );

$stmt3 = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $tsql_callSP, $params);
if( $stmt3 === false )
{
     echo "Error in executing statement 3.\n";
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

print_r( $stmt3); //attempting to print the return but all i get is Resource id #3
echo "test echo";

sqlsrv_free_stmt( $stmt3);
sqlsrv_close( $conn); 

I know that I can use an output parameter, but I will always receive multiple values from the stored proc.

Answer 1

Supposing that the stored procedure is returning the contents of one table with a single SELECT statement, using its output should be as simple as using the result of sqlsrv_query as you would any other selection query result (i.e. using sqlsrv_fetch_object/array on the result)!
So the stored proc could look something like this:

CREATE STORED PROCEDURE test
AS
    -- do some other stuff here
    -- ...
    SELECT * FROM test
GO

And in your php:

// establish db connection, initialize
// ...

$sql = "{call test}"
$result = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);
while (sqlsrv_fetch_object($result))
{
     // do something with the data
     // ...
}