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

You could use exec or backticks and actually run it from the command line through php. Apparently the mysql command has a -H switch you can use, and it will output HTML formatted. Haven't tried it though, but that might look good too.

echo '<pre>';
echo `mysql -u user -ppass -e "select * from table;" database_name`;

2 lines, no pear packages, how much more elegant can it get for a quick and dirty stats page.