Reproduced on Windows:
If you get an exception when you try to handle the created file (rename, move etc.) you should unset the XMLWriter instance.
In other case you'll get an exception because the XMLWriter process holds access to this file.
<?php
$xml = new \XMLWriter();
$xml->openUri(...)
...
$xml->flush();
unset($xml); //important!
XMLWriter::openUri
xmlwriter_open_uri
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)
XMLWriter::openUri -- xmlwriter_open_uri — Create new xmlwriter using source uri for output
Description
Object oriented style
XMLWriter::openUri
( string
$uri
) : boolProcedural style
xmlwriter_open_uri
( string
$uri
) : resource
Creates a new XMLWriter using
uri for the output.
Parameters
-
uri -
The URI of the resource for the output.
Return Values
Object oriented style: Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Procedural style: Returns a new xmlwriter resource for later use with the
xmlwriter functions on success, FALSE on error.
Examples
Example #1 Direct output of XML
It is possible to directly output XML by using the php://output stream wrapper.
<?php
$out =new XMLWriter();
$out->openURI('php://output');
?>
Notes
Note:
On Windows, files opened with this function are locked until the writer is released.
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
tloeffler ¶
8 years ago
yankee at ignorethis dot cipher DASH code dot de ¶
16 years ago
Want to write xml-data directly to the user instead of memory or file?
This will do:
<?php
$out =new XMLWriter();
$out->openURI('php://output');
?>
icepick dot pt at hotmail dot com ¶
15 years ago
I wanted to stream a XML file directly to the user and having him prompted to save it without displaying the content, but when using
<?php
$out =new XMLWriter();
$out->openURI('php://output');
?>
the user's browser was displaying the file contents instead of prompting the user with a filesave window.
To have the XML file stream saved directly to the user without being displayed by the browser, you shoud add:
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/html/force-download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='file_name.xml'");
$out =new XMLWriter();
$out->openURI('php://output');
?>
This will prompt the user with a dialog box to save 'file_name.xml' on his disk, and will not display the content of the streamed XML.
