XML creation using CodeIgniter

Question

I\'m using this code in Codeigniter to generate XML:

public function get_cuisine()
{
    $this->load->dbutil();
    $sql = \"select * from cuisine\";
          


        

Answer 1

You'll need to set XML headers if you want to output the file directly:

Using the Codeigniter Output class:

$xml = $this->dbutil->xml_from_result($query, $config);
$this->output->set_content_type('text/xml');
$this->output->set_output($xml); 

Or you can use plain PHP to set the headers:

header('Content-type: text/xml');
echo $this->dbutil->xml_from_result($query, $config);

Or you can use the CI download helper:

$xml = $this->dbutil->xml_from_result($query, $config);
$this->load->helper('download');
force_download('myfile.xml', $xml);

Or write it to a file with the file helper:

$xml = $this->dbutil->xml_from_result($query, $config);
$this->load->helper('file');
$file_name = '/path/to/myfile.xml';
write_file($file_name, $xml);
// Optionally redirect to the file you (hopefully) just created
redirect($file_name);