Question
PHP download created on the fly contains the source page's HTML
I have a page that gives users the option of downloading some data (in JSON format, if that matters). I am making use of the PHP header command as shown below:
<html>
<body>
<?php
$content = '{"employee": {"name":"bill","salary":36000,"married":true}}';
header("Content-type: application/json");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=savethis.json");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($content));
header("Connection: close");
print $content;
exit(0);
?>
</body>
</html>
But the file that downloads looks like this:
<html>
<body>
{"employee": {"name":"bill","salary":36000,"married":true}}
Close, but no cigar. What I can do to get rid of the unwanted HTML?
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Get our biweekly newsletter
Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.
Hollie's Hub for Good
Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.
Become a contributor
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
Hi @nycstern,
It does seem like it’s getting your html tags:
If you remove them, the json file you create shouldn’t have those tags in it.
Having said that, you most probably will have more HTML in the page rather than just two tags. In that case the following should work properly
Notice how the Content-type has been switched and it’s not above the json file itself.
Regards, KFSys