Question

Is there a clean way (no hardcoding) in which I can dump all the contents of a database directly to HTML using PHP?

I don’t want to run queries for every table and step through the results, outputting them. I need this for testing purposes, so the tables aren’t that big.

Any hints?

I want this done directly in my php file, where the rest of the test takes place, so that I may compare with the sample. I need to do this automatically, so can’t really use tools like PHPMyAdmin.

Answer 1

Something like this ought to work:

<?php

function dump_mysql_results($mysql_table){
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$table` WHERE 1",[your connection]) or die(mysql_error());
    if (!mysql_num_rows($query)){die("No rows in $table");}
    while($r=mysql_fetch_array($query)){
        if (!isset($html)){
            $keys = array_keys($r); 
            $html = "<tr>";
            foreach($keys as $key){
                $html .= "<th>$key</th>";
            }
            $html .= "</tr>";
        }
        $html .= "<tr>";
        foreach($r as $value){
            $html .= "<td>$value</td>";
        }
        $html .= "</tr>";   
    }
    return "<table>".$html."</table>";
}

//ADDING a loop to dump the whole db:

$tables = mysql_list_tables ( 'database name',$link_identifier) or die(mysql_error());
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($tables)){
    echo dump_mysql_results($r[0]);
}

?>