view online xml with tags

[michaelfurey]

I have to generate the following text with a php script in the server and render it in chrome, then copy it manually with the mouse and finally paste it manually in a xml file located in my desktop pc.

 

The text is the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<shiporder orderid="889923"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="shiporder.xsd">
  <orderperson>John Smith</orderperson>
  <item>
    <title>Hide your heart</title>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>9.90</price>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title>Hide your heart</title>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>9.90</price>
  </item>
</shiporder>

The problem is that I have to render in the browser also the tags and the text included inside the tags... is it possible to render that text in chrome in that way?

[kicken]

If you want to display the XML rather than have chrome try to interpret it then run it through htmlspecialchars prior to displaying it.

echo '<p>The HTML code is:</p>';
echo '<code>' . htmlscpecialchars($xml) . '</code>';

[requinix]

view-source:http://domain.tld/path/to/script.php

Or make the script force a download instead of showing it in the browser.

 

Or run PHP on your own computer and have it generate the file directly in the place you want.

 

Or one of a bunch of other things.

[michaelfurey]

If you want to display the XML rather than have chrome try to interpret it then run it through htmlspecialchars prior to displaying it.

echo '<p>The HTML code is:</p>';
echo '<code>' . htmlscpecialchars($xml) . '</code>';

Ok perfect that I wanted to know! I apreciated also the test that you created for me to check if I have some problem solving skills ( " htmlsCpecialchars($xml) " ).

[michaelfurey]

view-source:http://domain.tld/path/to/script.php

Or make the script force a download instead of showing it in the browser.

 

Or run PHP on your own computer and have it generate the file directly in the place you want.

 

Or one of a bunch of other things.

 

Is it possible to download the output of the previous code from the server to the client? In that way I should obtain the xml content in the client without copying and paste through the browser.

 

In other words I would like to run a file located in the server that generates the xml file and to download it authomatically to the client.

[requinix]

The most you can do is have the browser start downloading the content but you cannot choose where it downloads to.

 

Before any output,

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="whatever name you want.xml"');