XML : Can't save xml file content in mysql with fopen/fwrite/fclose (php)

So I'm writing an XML file in php with fopen/fwrite/fclose and then attempting to save that information into a MySQL database BLOB field; however, I'm running into an issue where after saving the information into MySQL, all the file contains is "Resource id #33" and none of the information that I was trying to save.

  $blahXMLFile = fopen($_POST['scenBlahNewName'].".xml","wb");  fwrite($blahXMLFile, "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>");  fwrite($blahXMLFile, "<Blah>");  fwrite($blahXMLFile, "<Name>");  fwrite($blahXMLFile, $_POST['scenBlahNewName']);  fwrite($blahXMLFile, "</Name>");  fwrite($blahXMLFile, "</Blah>");  fclose($blahXMLFile);    

And then after that I take the $blahXMLFile php variable and try to save it in the BLOB field in my MYSQL database and "Resource id #33" is all that's in the file. This is also the case if I use javascript to alert the php variable.

What am I missing?