Newbie confused about xml query results

[webnewbieugh]

I have an sql database on my website. I would like to publish the results of a query. I select (using phpmyadmin) "create php" and it generates an xml file. I have been researching like crazy how to use an xml file and it is very complicated. Is there an easier way to retrieve results from an sql database? Any suggestions or referral to articles would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[chazzy]

It seems like you're using PHP.
I would say start off with the MySQL package that comes with PHP.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
or maybe look at some books to understand how to do it.

[webnewbieugh]

thanks i will try that. this xml parser stuff is NUTS