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    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

    bool XMLWriter::openURI ( string $uri )

    Procedural style

    resource xmlwriter_open_uri ( string $uri )

    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.

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    Lukas Knuth
    4 years ago
    If you're facing problems on Windows Servers running PHP 5.3 and newer, where this function quits with an "Unable to resolve file path" Error, here is a Workaround which isn't posted on the Bug site yet:

    Add this before you use the openURI()-function:

    <?php
    touch    ($uri);
    $uri = realpath($uri);
    ?>

    This Bug appears in the following cases:

    $xml->openURI('file.xml'); -> ok!
    $xml->openURI('../file.xml'); -> ok!
    $xml->openURI('xml/file.xml'); -> DON'T WORK!
    $xml->openURI('../xml/file.xml'); -> DON'T WORK!
    yankee at ignorethis dot cipher DASH code dot de
    8 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
    7 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.
    tloeffler
    7 months ago
    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!
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