output to file

[Anon]

I just started jusing PHP and MYSQL to generate MIF files for database publishing.
I use the generated code on the browser screen and save this as a text file.

Is there a code for php to output the result to a txt file and not to screen?

I only need the generated text and not the html source because only the ouput on screen is MIF compatible.

[Anon]

There is an entire section of the manual devoted to file i/o.

Alternatively, if you really like having the data sent to your Web browser, consider using the header() function to change the mime type.

[Anon]

I got the fwrite function to work but I still have the problem that I want to write the output of the html to disk and not the html itself.
I think striping the html codes will not work, see the MIF output in a brouwser:

<MIFFile 5.50>
<TextFlow
<TFTag A'>
<TFAutoConnect Yes>
<Para
<PgfTagTitle'>
<ParaLine

Any ideas?

[Anon]

No, I don't understand what you're doing, or why you're having problems.

If you don't want HTML in the output, don't put HTML in the output.

PHP doesn't produce HTML, it produces any textual format that you tell it to produce. That might be HTML, or XML, or WML, or tab-delimited text listings, or something you might dream up. You can write anything to disk and you can send anything to the browser.

There are at least three completely different file formats that all go by the name of MIF, but as far as I can tell they all are text-based and PHP should be quite capable of producing reports in those formats.

[Anon]

You are right, first I produced the correct output in an browser screen and saved it to disk,and this code is different then the source code.
But with fwrite I can produce the MIF file directly to disk and makes the proces much faster.

Thanx