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How do I export to XML from a user selected set of checkboxes

Hi
I have dishes stored in a database, and I have them called to index.php and i have added checkboxes to allow the user to add the selected dish to the XML output.

But the XML is creating a full list of database items in the XML I am using DW CS3 and Dreamweaver Development Toolbox with the Export to XML behavior

I want the user to be able to select the dishes he wants and then click a button to export to a XML file, is there any other way to do this?

Using PHP/MySQL

<?php require_once('Connections/db.php'); ?>
<?php
// Load the XML classes
//require_once('includes/XMLExport/XMLExport.php');
 
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
 
  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
 
  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}
 
mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM menu";
$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $db) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);
$totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1);
 
// Begin XMLExport Recordset1
//$xmlExportObj = new XMLExport();
//$xmlExportObj->setRecordset($Recordset1);
//$xmlExportObj->addColumn("Dish_group", "Dish_group");
//$xmlExportObj->addColumn("Dish_name", "Dish_name");
//$xmlExportObj->addColumn("Dish_description", "Dish_description");
//$xmlExportObj->setMaxRecords("ALL");
//$xmlExportObj->setDBEncoding("UTF-8");
//$xmlExportObj->setXMLEncoding("UTF-8");
//$xmlExportObj->setXMLFormat("NODES");
//$xmlExportObj->setRootNode("menu");
//$xmlExportObj->setRowNode("dish");
//$xmlExportObj->Execute();
// End XMLExport Recordset1
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.style2 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-style: italic;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
 
<body>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><?php echo $row_Recordset1['Dish_group']; ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<?php do { ?>
  <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><span class="style1"><?php echo $row_Recordset1['Dish_name']; ?></span></td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" id="checkbox" value="yes" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><span class="style2"><?php echo $row_Recordset1['Dish_description']; ?></span></td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </form>
  <?php } while ($row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1)); ?>
  <form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>
  <a href="export.php">Export
  </a>
</body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($Recordset1);
?>

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