Re: Generate XML using controller and force it to sent as download
Still haven't figured this out. Is this at all possible with CakePHP? I
can't imagine it would not be possible.
thanks
On Thursday, December 19, 2013 5:16:50 PM UTC+1, Willem wrote:
Hi,
Goal: I have a button on a page. When user clicks it should generate a XML
file and make it download (instead of opening in browser window).
Cake version: 1.3
So I create a HTML link like this:
?php echo $html-link( __('Generate XML file', true),
array('action'='generateXMLFile','ext'='xml'),
array('class'='button','target'='_blank') ); ?
Which outputs a simple HTML link.
I have added in Routes:
Router::parseExtensions('json','xml');
My action:
function generateXMLFile(){
// Configure::write('debug',0);
// Only XML Requests
if(!$this-RequestHandler-isXml()){
die();
}
}
My view:
response
posts
Post
idtest 234/id
/Post
/posts
/response
My Layout:
?php header('Content-type: text/xml');?
?php echo $this-Xml-header(); ?
?php echo $content_for_layout; ?
Now when I click the link the XML is sent as output to the screen.
Clicking with right mousebutton -save as.. makes it possible to save the
file as XML.
Headers are correctly set as text/xml
How can i prevent this from outputting to the screen but output it to a
file/stream for download ?
thanks
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Re: Generate XML using controller and force it to sent as download
It can be done with regular PHP, so it can be done with CakePHP.
The MediaView is a view class uses specifically for downloading files, and
media, rather than viewing in the browser. However, this usually requires
that the file is locally available on the disk, and this isn't happening in
your case.
However, looking at the MediaView and related processing, we can see that
you need the Content-Disposition header entry, to force an attachment, with
a particular file name.
So, using a cheats method, include the following in your layout:
?php header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myxml.xml'); ?
Though you may want to using something a bit more CakePHP friendly than the
raw header() command.
It's been a while since I've done development in CakePHP 1.3, however in
CakePHP 2.4, you can specify $this-response-download($filename); to write
that header.
Regards
Reuben Helms
On Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:43:03 UTC+10, Willem wrote:
Still haven't figured this out. Is this at all possible with CakePHP? I
can't imagine it would not be possible.
thanks
On Thursday, December 19, 2013 5:16:50 PM UTC+1, Willem wrote:
Hi,
Goal: I have a button on a page. When user clicks it should generate a
XML file and make it download (instead of opening in browser window).
Cake version: 1.3
So I create a HTML link like this:
?php echo $html-link( __('Generate XML file', true),
array('action'='generateXMLFile','ext'='xml'),
array('class'='button','target'='_blank') ); ?
Which outputs a simple HTML link.
I have added in Routes:
Router::parseExtensions('json','xml');
My action:
function generateXMLFile(){
// Configure::write('debug',0);
// Only XML Requests
if(!$this-RequestHandler-isXml()){
die();
}
}
My view:
response
posts
Post
idtest 234/id
/Post
/posts
/response
My Layout:
?php header('Content-type: text/xml');?
?php echo $this-Xml-header(); ?
?php echo $content_for_layout; ?
Now when I click the link the XML is sent as output to the screen.
Clicking with right mousebutton -save as.. makes it possible to save the
file as XML.
Headers are correctly set as text/xml
How can i prevent this from outputting to the screen but output it to a
file/stream for download ?
thanks
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Generate XML using controller and force it to sent as download
Hi,
Goal: I have a button on a page. When user clicks it should generate a XML
file and make it download (instead of opening in browser window).
Cake version: 1.3
So I create a HTML link like this:
?php echo $html-link( __('Generate XML file', true),
array('action'='generateXMLFile','ext'='xml'),
array('class'='button','target'='_blank') ); ?
Which outputs a simple HTML link.
I have added in Routes:
Router::parseExtensions('json','xml');
My action:
function generateXMLFile(){
// Configure::write('debug',0);
// Only XML Requests
if(!$this-RequestHandler-isXml()){
die();
}
}
My view:
response
posts
Post
idtest 234/id
/Post
/posts
/response
My Layout:
?php header('Content-type: text/xml');?
?php echo $this-Xml-header(); ?
?php echo $content_for_layout; ?
Now when I click the link the XML is sent as output to the screen. Clicking
with right mousebutton -save as.. makes it possible to save the file as
XML.
Headers are correctly set as text/xml
How can i prevent this from outputting to the screen but output it to a
file/stream for download ?
thanks
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