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Save a given string to a xml-file, but it saves the current html code of the view

So, basically I have a String named $xmlString. It's already well-formed. I'd like to save this String temporarily into a XML-file (precisely: a OPML) and send it to a email address.

I receive the email, it is a file with the .opml extension, but it is not filled with the content of $xmlString, but filled with html of the view. (you could look at it here)

This is my Controller: 

App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
App::uses('File', 'Utility');

class UsersController extends AppController {
    public function beforeFilter() {
        parent::beforeFilter();
        // Set XML
        if ($this->RequestHandler->isXml()) {
            $this->RequestHandler->setContent('xml');
        }
}

  public function sendOpml($xmlString) {

    $this->autoRender=false;
    $xmlString=$this->render();

    //here is something wrong...    
    file_put_contents(TMP.'podcasts.opml', $xmlString);

    $Email = new CakeEmail('default');
    $Email->from(array('[email protected]' => 'Podcaster'));
    ...
    $Email->attachments(array(
        'podcasts.opml' => array(
            'file' => TMP.'podcasts.opml',
            'mimetype' => 'text/x-opml')));
    $Email->send('My message');
  }
}
?>

Could somebody explain me why it is not the original string in there?

Solution

  • The problem was the random render in the action

      public function sendOpml($xmlString) {
     $this->autoRender=false;
     $xmlString=$this->render(); /*this is the problem */

    Since the string was already well formatted (and anyway it's not really pretty to assign a render() to a variable), there was no need to handle it that way before putting it in a file to be attached.