Download xml file

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C._M=FCller?=]

Hello,
First, I am very new to php. Bloody Beginner.
My problem is, that i want the user to be able to download a generated
xml file. I have working code which savies it to a file and sends it:

$fp = fopen($xml_file,'a');
fwrite($fp, $result[..]);
fclose($fp);

Is it possible to avoid writing the file? the $result contains all
data. how can I do this? Can someone help me with the command to send
data back to the user? I found similar code in
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.l...cd1d6bc5fbeb08
Should i provide some information about the xml mine type?

Thanks for help!
c

[Toby A Inkster]

C. Müller wrote:

Can someone help me with the command to send data back to the user?

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/xml");
print $result[..];
?>
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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C._M=FCller?=]

Hello,

Thank you Toby, it works! Wow, that's short.
With your help i found this on the net:

header("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
$xmldef = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
';
echo $xmldef;
echo $result[..]

Which works also. Thanks,
C.