Generating an XML from a database may be useful in several ways, perhaps you wish to send data from a query across a network using a SOAP request, or perhaps you're using it to build some data for a web service. Whatever your purpose, this is how to do it—also we'll look at some real-world uses—for example, we'll generate the XML output from a database query.
Firstly, we need to create a table and enter some example data so that you'll see some data in the CSV format, so with that in mind, copy the following code into SQL:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` ( `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `user_first_name` varchar(125) NOT NULL, `user_last_name` varchar(125) NOT NULL, `user_email` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `user_created_date` int(11) NOT NULL COMMENT 'unix timestamp', `user_is_active` varchar(3) NOT NULL COMMENT 'yes or no', PRIMARY KEY (`user_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ; INSERT...