Question

Just a quick one – I wrote a php script recently that dynamically creates XML file using API DOM. So I’m using this at the beginning:

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');

And at the end it looks like this:

$server = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path_to_xml = "$server/project/file.xml"; 
file_put_contents($path_to_xml, $dom->saveXML());

It does everything I wanted but why browser is trying to download this php script instead of just run it? Please can someone help me with this. I’m pretty sure it’s something easy.
//———————————–edited
Thanks for all replies. Yes I’m sending custom headers because it’s google maps kml file that I’m creating dynamically.

header(‘Content-type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml’);

// Creates the root KML element and appends it to the root document.
$node = $dom->createElementNS('http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0', 'kml');
$parNode = $dom->appendChild($node);

Could that be possible cause of this?

Answer 1

If the file extension is .php and your web server correctly configured it will run it.

You specify an application/xxx content type so most browsers will force a download and use the name of your script as file name.

If you want to force a file name different from your php file name use :

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=your_requested_file.kml');