Creating xml doc using php-file handling

[phpmagesh]

Hi,

I want to create a xml document using php-file handling . that i have a Database named as Total_category and table name as students_one.

and i have fields like name, age, email, title, specification etc.. inside that students_one table. what i want to do is, i want to create a xml file with this details as
shown below:

<total_category>
   <students_one>
      <name>xxxxx</name>
      <age>23</age>
      <title>Student</title>
      .........
      .........
   </students_one>
</total_category>

this is want i want to write in that xml file and i want to save the file as doc.xml

some one please help me how to work over this, since i m not familiar in file handling in php. can anyone help me please

Thanks in advance,

Regards
Magesh

[Markus]

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[TechiBharath]

Hi Magesh,

This code may help you.

<?php
// database constants
// make sure the information is correct
define("DB_SERVER", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "root");
define("DB_PASS", "password");
define("DB_NAME", "tutorials");

// connection to the database 
$dbhandle = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS) 
   or die("Unable to connect to MySQL"); 

// select a database to work with 
$selected = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $dbhandle) 
   or die("Could not select examples"); 

// return all available tables 
$result_tbl = mysql_query( "SHOW TABLES FROM ".DB_NAME, $dbhandle ); 

$tables = array(); 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result_tbl)) { 
   $tables[] = $row[0]; 
} 

$output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n"; 
$output .= "<schema>"; 

// iterate over each table and return the fields for each table
foreach ( $tables as $table ) { 
   $output .= "<table name=\"$table\">"; 
   $result_fld = mysql_query( "SHOW FIELDS FROM ".$table, $dbhandle ); 

   while( $row1 = mysql_fetch_row($result_fld) ) {
      $output .= "<field name=\"$row1[0]\" type=\"$row1[1]\"";
      $output .= ($row1[3] == "PRI") ? " primary_key=\"yes\" />" : " />";
   } 

   $output .= "</table>"; 
} 

$output .= "</schema>"; 

// tell the browser what kind of file is come in
header("Content-type: text/xml"); 
// print out XML that describes the schema
echo $output; 

// close the connection 
mysql_close($dbhandle); 
?>

This code will just read the Tables from Database and write into the output string with Tag manually concatenated.

But this is not a professional way of programming.

Try to use XML DOM Parser with PHP.

You can refer this for DOM With PHP.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_xml_dom.asp

Good Luck...

Regards
Bharath