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Save an xml response to a file instead of displaying in browser

Hi, i'm just thinking on generating an sitemap.xml to my /public folder

My code:

<?php

class SitemapController extends \Phalcon\Mvc\Controller
{
            public function generujSitemap() {
            $response = $this->response;
            $response->setHeader('Content-Type', "application/xml; charset=UTF-8");
            $sitemap = new \DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");

        /* generating sitemap.xml */

            $sitemap->appendChild($urlset);
            $response->setContent($sitemap->saveXML());
            $response->setFileToSend($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/public/sitemap.xml', null, false);
            return $response->send();
        }
}

class IndexController extends \Phalcon\Mvc\Controller
{

 public function sitemapAction(){
          $this->view->disableLevel(View::LEVEL_MAIN_LAYOUT);
          $SiteMap = new SitemapController();
          return $SiteMap->generujSitemap();
       }
}

It gives me a proper sitemap in browser, but how to save it into to the server?



6.0k
edited Jul '17

Just found out a workaround solution

file_put_contents($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/public/sitemap.xml',$sitemap->saveXML());

perhaps Phalcon offers a nicer way, so I'm not closing the topic yet



145.0k
edited Jul '17 
 $SiteMap = new SitemapController();
          return $SiteMap->generujSitemap();

Move it to some service really, or just this method to indexController, it's stupid that you create new controller and call method from it which is not really a controller.

And about your question, don't really see a problem with file_put_contents. You are generating this content as a string, so not sure what else can be used.



6.0k
edited Jul '17

Thanks @Jurigag for your advice.

I removed the file_put_contents function and used this

$sitemap = new \DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
//...
$sitemap->save($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/public/sitemap.xml');

I think it's ok now



145.0k

Yea i guess this is fine too.



10.4k

Do you mean you want the file to be force-downloaded by the browser, instead of just displaying it?



6.0k
in reply to ChangePlaces

Hi there, no, just save as file on server

Do you mean you want the file to be force-downloaded by the browser, instead of just displaying it?