hi,everyone,i am a newbuy for php world and i have a problem when i study php i want to make a script,it works for: a mysql table,like title author content date a1 a2 a3 a4 b1 b2 b3 b4 .......................... and i want to use php ,select it and make a xml to save it ,now i use this script <?php header("Content-type: text/xml"); $host = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $pass = ""; $database = "test"; $linkID = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host."); mysql_select_db($database, $linkID) or die("Could not find database."); $query = "SELECT * FROM blog ORDER BY date DESC"; $resultID = mysql_query($query, $linkID) or die("Data not found."); $xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n"; $xml_output .= "<entries>\n"; for($x = 0 ; $x < mysql_num_rows($resultID) ; $x++){ $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultID); $xml_output .= "\t<entry>\n"; $xml_output .= "\t\t<date>" . $row['date'] . "</date>\n"; // Escaping illegal characters $row['text'] = str_replace("&", "&", $row['text']); $row['text'] = str_replace("<", "<", $row['text']); $row['text'] = str_replace(">", ">", $row['text']); $row['text'] = str_replace("\"", """, $row['text']); $xml_output .= "\t\t<text>" . $row['text'] . "</text>\n"; $xml_output .= "\t</entry>\n"; } $xml_output .= "</entries>"; echo $xml_output; ?> it has no problem,but i want to save a xml file ,like this format <?xml version="1.0" encoding="GB2312"?> <Table> <Record> <Title>a1</Title> <Author>a2</Author> <Content>a3</Content> <date>2003-06-29</date> </Record> <Record> <Title>b1</Title> <Author>b2</Author> <Content>b3</Content> <date>2003-06-30</date> </Record> ........ ----many record </Table> how can i improve this script? Thanks all