Question

I do the following in my php code :

$q="SELECT * FROM {$table} where x;
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "test", "test","mytable");
$res = mysqli_query($link,$q);
 if($res)
   {
       $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($res);
       header("Content-type: text/xml");
       header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
       echo $row['blob'];
   }

I can see that the data(xml file) that I uploaded into mysql does not have any leading spaces but when I run the above code 3 new lines and a space appear and the file is not well formed xml any more.
Any idea why the exact contents are not being read from the table?

Answer 1

Figured it out.A silly mistake.
My open php tag started on line 3 column 2

> <?php

and that made the ‘echo’ starting from the same line (line 3 column 2).
Is that how echo is supposed to work?