[SOLVED] No better way??????

[jmurch]

 

I posted this yesterday and it's starting to look like I'm stuck with the non-elegant solution. I'm posting this one last time hoping that someone has had a similar problem and found a non-work around solution:

 

 

I am using the following to generate an xml doc to the users browser:

 

$fp = fopen("document.xml", 'w+');

$str = ($xml_frame->Fields('top_xml').$content->Fields('xml').$content->Fields('xml').$xml_frame->Fields('bottom_xml'));

fwrite($fp, $str);

fclose($fp);

header( 'Location: http://www.website.com/document.xml') ;

 

I would like to delete 'document.xml' after it has been loaded to the user's browser. Unlinking the file kills it before it loads and sleep hangs everything. I there a way to detect when it's finished downloading to the user?

 

Thanks

 

Re: help!! there must be a way..

« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 08:31:04 PM » Quote 

 

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A standard method is:

 

1.  Generate a random name for each generated document

2.  Store them all in one directory

3.  Have a script run regularly that checks for old files (using fstat()) and deletes anything older than a fixed limit, say 1 hour.  You can run the script from cron, or have it run each time a user accesses a particular script.

 

That doesn't detect when the file is downloaded, because that's a very difficult task.

 

 

 

[utexas_pjm]

Don't write the files to your disk.  Just push the XML output to the browser using a print/echo statement.

 

Best,

 

Patrick

[jmurch]

 

Patrick,

 

That's what I originally did but I need to send the files to the user's browser with .xml extension and do not know how to do that. If I just echo the files they dont get handled by the application that's associated with that xml tag <?mso-application>.

 

If I can echo the content as alias filename rather than the php filename that would be a perfect solution.

 

Jeff

 

[monk.e.boy]

You'll have to change the header type using:

 

http://uk3.php.net/header, use Live HTTP Headers to see what the correct XML header stuff is, then echo '<xml>';

 

monk.e.boy

[monk.e.boy]

If I can echo the content as alias filename rather than the php filename that would be a perfect solution.

 

Jeff

 

Try using apache rewrite rules to change http://www.me.com/my-xml.xml to pass over to your php file.

 

monk.e.boy

[utexas_pjm]

You need to tell the browser that you're sending an xml document.  You can do that by using the header function:

 

<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml');
?>

 

 

Best,

 

Patrick

[jmurch]

 

Thanks guys! As always this forum is awesome.

 

Jeff