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php array to xml example

This is an example of generating an xml output format from the database.
This code is creating a sample rss feed from the joomla articles (which can be added to a rss.xml file).

<?php
    $dbhost = "localhost";
    $dbuser = "root";
    $dbpass = "";
    $dbname = "joomla";

    mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
    mysql_select_db($dbname);
    mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); // to get proper format
   
    $sql = "SELECT id, title, alias, title_alias, metadesc FROM `jos_content`
    where catid=12 limit 3";
    $q   = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
    $xml = "";

    while($r = mysql_fetch_array($q)){
      $xml .= "<item>";
      $xml .= "<title>".trim($r['title'])."</title>";
      $xml .= "<link>".trim($r['title_alias'])."</link>";
      $xml .= "<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>";
      $xml .= "<description>".trim($r['metadesc'])."</description>";
      $xml .= "</item>";
    }

    header("content-type: application/xml;");
    echo $xml;
    ?>

Note: Run the file. If you dont see the xml output, try to view the source code...
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