Export more than one DB Table as SQL Data - php

Question

I'm looking to export 11 Database tables' data as XML. I've easily managed to export one table, without issue. But I am looking to export more than one really.
I'm sure theres a way and obviously output the data as seperate table entitys. Any help is much appreciated on this one, As I'm finding it a little tricky.
My code is as follows
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$host = "localhost";
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$database = "db_etch";
$table = "keywords";
$SQL_query = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$DB_link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host.");
mysql_select_db($database, $DB_link) or die ("Could not find or access the database.");
$result = mysql_query ($SQL_query, $DB_link) or die ("Data not found. Your SQL query didn't work... ");
// produce XML
header("Content-type: text/xml");
$XML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";
// root node
$XML .= "<result>\n";
// rows
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$XML .= "\t<$table>\n";
$i = 0;
// cells
foreach ($row as $cell) {
$cell = str_replace("&", "&", $cell);
$cell = str_replace("<", "<", $cell);
$cell = str_replace(">", ">", $cell);
$cell = str_replace("\"", """, $cell);
$col_name = mysql_field_name($result,$i);
$XML .= "\t\t<" . $col_name . ">" . $cell . "</" . $col_name . ">\n";
$i++;
}
$XML .= "\t</$table>\n";
}
$XML .= "</result>\n";
// output the whole XML string
echo $XML;
// Write $sql to file
$File = "keywords.xml";
$fh = fopen($File, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $XML;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

Answer 1

I changed some of your code, assuming some little extra what you wanted:
Changed str_replace() to htmlspecialchars()
Moved xml start to the beginning.
Added a new root node.
That's about it. If you want to output all tables from a certain db, you should use "show tables;" -query to find out the tables that the db consist of.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$host = "localhost";
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$database = "db_etch";
$table = "keywords";
$tables_to_output_array = array('keywords', 'othertable1', 'othertable2');
$DB_link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host.");
mysql_select_db($database, $DB_link) or die ("Could not find or access the database.");
// produce XML
header("Content-type: text/xml");
$XML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";
// root node
$XML .= "<tables>\n";
while (list(, $table) = each($tables_to_output_array)) {
$SQL_query = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$result = mysql_query ($SQL_query, $DB_link) or die ("Data not found. Your SQL query didn't work... ");
// tables
$XML .= "\t<$table>\n";
// rows
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$XML .= "\t\t<row>\n";
$i = 0;
// cells
foreach ($row as $cell) {
$col_name = mysql_field_name($result,$i);
$XML .= "\t\t\t<" . $col_name . ">" . htmlspecialchars($cell) . "</" . $col_name . ">\n";
$i++;
}
$XML .= "\t\t</row>\n";
}
$XML .= "\t</$table>\n";
}
$XML .= "</tables>\n";
// output the whole XML string
echo $XML;
// Write $sql to file
$File = "keywords.xml";
$fh = fopen($File, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $XML;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>