Return DataTable from WCF service to PHP client

[Swys]

Hi all!

I am creating a WCF service (my first). I am going to have a variety of clients, one of which is a PHP client.

Now, I've already established that I can return a normal string to the PHP client as wellas an array of strings. I also want to return a DataTable object in such a way that the PHP client will be able to understand the DataTable. Thus far, when a DataTable is returned to the PHP client, the result is one long continuous string with all the data that is in the DataTable.

How can I return a DataTable from my service so that the PHP client will be able to understand it?

[Swys]

Or to put it better, I would like to enable the PHP client to receive any complex data type that the WCF service may return.

Can anyone please help?

[Frinavale]

Have you tried using XML Serialization on the DataTable?
This should produce an XML file that you could parse in your PHP code.