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

This doesn't make any sense bearing in mind the manner in which you fetch data from MySQL in PHP. (i.e.: You generally fetch onw row of data at a time either as an array (mysql_fetch_array) or an object (mysql_fetch_object).)

As such, you'd need to write your own hack to grab all of the rows and format the output in this manner. (That said, it should be trivial to grab the data and output it as an HTML table - you could get the field names via array_keys if you use mysql_fetch_array, etc. )