PHP output file on disk to browser

Question

I want to serve an existing file to the browser in PHP. I\'ve seen examples about image/jpeg but that function seems to save a file to disk and you have to create a right si

Answer 1

Following will initiate XML file output

$fp = fopen($file_name, 'rb');

// Set the header
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($file_name));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$file_name.'"');

fpassthru($fp);
exit;

The 'Content-Disposition: attachment' is pretty common and is used by sites like Facebook to set the right header