PHP file writing problem....

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I just want to write string in a file and let the user to download the file.
But when i write file its also write the other text from my html file.

My source code is this:

HTML

<html>
<head>
<title>File checking</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello how are you...
<div>
<?php
$string = "Hey i am just testing";

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="sample.html"');
header('Content-Type: text/html');
header('Content-Length: ' . strlen($string));
header('Connection: close');


echo $string;
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

And its out put is:
"Hello how are you...
Hey i am just testing"

Posted 8-Feb-14 1:33am

Alamgirable

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Alamgirable 8-Feb-14 7:34am

I only want to write "Hey i am just testing" but it also write "Hello how are you..." from my file as you can see

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Florian Trück · Answer 1 · 2014-02-08T01:58:00

Solution 1

This is because you are serving the file content within the html file. If you want the file content alone you will have to remove all html stuff around.
Alternatively you can provide a link to a standalone php script which will serve the file content.

Posted 8-Feb-14 1:58am

Florian Trück