Formatting the results of a MySQL query as if it were run from the console

Question

I\'m writing a quick and dirty reporting script that queries a report and emails the results. When using the MySQL console the results are in a nicely formatted table:

Answer 1

Building on mfonda's answer, you can really easily load the Console_Table pear package with composer now: https://packagist.org/packages/pear/console_table

$ composer require pear/console_table

"; #uncomment this line if running script in a browser

//The class isn't namespaced so just call it directly like so:
echo Console_Table::fromArray(
    ['column', 'headings'], 
    [
        ['1st row', 'values'], 
        ['2nd row', 'values'], 
        ['...', '...']
    ]
);

This outputs:

+---------+----------+
| column  | headings |
+---------+----------+
| 1st row | values   |
| 2nd row | values   |
| ...     | ...      |
+---------+----------+