Convert MySQL to XML via PHP

Question

I have a MySQL database on my server and I\'d like a certain table to be returned via PHP as XML. I\'ve seen various ways to get XML to MySQL, but not an easy to follow way of t

Answer 1

Seconding using XMLWriter or DOM to generate XML in PHP. An alternate approach would be to use the mysql command, which will write out simple XML structures. Something like this:

header("Content-type: application/xml");
passthru('mysql mydatabase --xml -umysqluser -pmysqlpassword -e "SELECT * FROM mytable");