Formatting MySQL Queries

Hello. My team and I are looking for a way to return an entire table of MySQL data with columns delimited by tabs and rows delimited by carriage returns. How exactly would this work - I'm not a PHP expert and, although I know MySQL, I don't know where to begin with formatting a query pointer into an actual pile of text. We have an engine ready to take tables in this format for processing, we just need to parse the query data into a text result. Thanks, Brent Anderson