[SOLVED] Using php to generate a .xml file

[Azu]

I have a .xml file which normally looks fine, type is text/html

 

The problem is, when I make the .xml file be parsed with PHP, and I put in the header at the start, and all I do is echo what was there before, it totally ruins it it basically turns it into a plain .txt file

 

Why is it doing this? Please tell me how to fix x_x this is very frustrating

 

It should be exactly the same...

 

Basically it is like this

 

before

blah blah[/url]
after[code]<?header; echo blah blah;?>

So ya it should be exactly the same but instead it is totally ruining it please help =\[/code]

[monk.e.boy]

xml is text/xml or plain old text, not text/html.

 

I'm not sure what your question is?

 

monk.e.boy

[mbtaylor]

Not too sure that this is what you mean but this is how I generate dynamic XML from a php page:

 

<?php
$xml =<<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<products>
  <product>
     <name>Some Product</name>
     <name>1.99</name>
  </product>
</products>
XML;

print ($xml);

header( "Content-type: application/xml; charset=\"iso-8859-1\", true");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
?>

 

The XML would likely come from a database.

[Lumio]

I also got a question:

how can I use

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

without getting php-problems?

[mbtaylor]

because the <? is contained in a string.

 

Check out HEREDOC syntax in the php manual (explained in the print manual page)

[monk.e.boy]

echo '<'.'?';

 

monk.e.boy

[Lumio]

mbtaylor... I know

monk.e.boy ... I didn't thought about that... thanks

[Azu]

Oh you were right about the header lol I had it wrong.. fixed it and now it's working perfectly! Thanks everyone!