Return DataTable from WCF service to PHP client

Hi all!

I am creating a WCF service (my first). I am going to have a variety of clients, one of which is a PHP client.

Now, I've already established that I can return a normal string to the PHP client as wellas an array of strings. I also want to return a DataTable object in such a way that the PHP client will be able to understand the DataTable. Thus far, when a DataTable is returned to the PHP client, the result is one long continuous string with all the data that is in the DataTable.

How can I return a DataTable from my service so that the PHP client will be able to understand it?

re: Return DataTable from WCF service to PHP client

Or to put it better, I would like to enable the PHP client to receive any complex data type that the WCF service may return.

Can anyone please help?

re: Return DataTable from WCF service to PHP client

Have you tried using XML Serialization on the DataTable?
This should produce an XML file that you could parse in your PHP code.