PHP - How Can I Parse Data Out Of The Html Page I Am Downloading?

I have a script that will download a file from my server onto the user's computer. The problem is it's adding the pages HTML to the top of the file. When I actually look at the file on my server it does NOT have the HTML there, so it has to be some sort of problem with my headers.

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<?php

$fname = "keyword_files/".$this->fileID.".csv";

header('Content-type: application/csv');
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".$fname);
readfile($fname);

?>

I would appreciate any help! Thanks.

Ok, I have a download script. The script is called like:

http://www.site.net/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=file001.zip&directory=directory12&

The download file code is below. My site hosts quite a few files that get linked on other websites. Problem is, when that link is clicked, obviously it just starts the file download, as if it were a direct link to the file.

What I need to do, is still have it download the file when the link is clicked, but I would also like it to redirect the browser to my homepage as well.

I tried placing this after the download headers but it didn't work.

header("Location: http://www.site.net");

Can anyone give me an idea how I can get the code to do that? Keep in mind that I'm not fluent in PHP.



case 'downloadfile';

$filename = getGetVar('filename');
$directory = getGetDir('directory');


$current_dir = $uploads_folder_name;
if ($directory != '')
{ $current_dir.="/$directory"; }


$filename = basename($filename);


if (!$grants[$user_status][DOWNLOAD])
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


if (!file_exists("$current_dir/$filename"))
{
place_header($mess[125]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


if (!is_path_safe($directory, $filename))
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


list($upl_user, $upl_ip, $filestatus, $contents) = get_file_description("$current_dir/$filename", $comment_max_caracters);
if ($validation_enabled && $filestatus == UNVALIDATED && !$grants[$user_status][VALIDATE])
{
place_header($mess[111]);
show_Contents();
break;
}



$size = filesize("$current_dir/$filename");
$daily_size = get_daydownload();
if (($max_daily_download_mb > 0) && (($size + $daily_size) > ($max_daily_download_mb * 1024 * 1024)))
{
place_header($mess[212]);
show_Contents();
break;
}


$monthly_size = get_monthdownload();
if (($max_monthly_download_mb > 0) && (($size+$monthly_size) > ($max_monthly_download_mb * 1024 * 1024)))
{
place_header($mess[213]);
show_Contents();
break;
}
increasefiledownloadcount("$current_dir/$filename");
increasebytecountdl("$destination/$userfile_name");
if (($user_status != ANONYMOUS) && ($logged_user_name != ''))  // Update user statistics
{
list($files_uploaded, $files_downloaded, $files_emailed) = load_userstat($logged_user_name);
$files_downloaded++;
save_userstat($logged_user_name, $files_uploaded, $files_downloaded, $files_emailed, time());
}


header("Content-Type: application/force-download; name=\"$filename\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");

// Decrypt file if encryption enabled
if ($encrypt_filecontent)
{ decrypt_file("$current_dir/$filename", true); }
else
{ readfile_chunked("$current_dir/$filename"); }


exit;
break;

Hey guys i am trying to parse selected data from a website. here is the sample code i have done

$url="some website":
$string=file_get_contents($url);
$mystring="john":// this is the string i want to find from that website

how to get this word "john" form that string.

second thing, suppose this is the word on the website [John  23  40]. i want to get all three values {John,23,40} to separate table columns. how to do that?

I am having troubles loading an xml file, without it just out displaying all the information right away into my php document. Example, i have a php file that runs a command line call to generate some xml, the file name on the server is like fontxml.php (header set to xml though), and its output is like this (when viewing the page source):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<report>
<fonts>
 <font>
  <commonName>Arial</commonName>
  <nativeName>Arial</nativeName>
  <fixedWidth>no</fixedWidth>
  <fixedSizes>no</fixedSizes>
  <copyright>Copyright (c) 2010 by Apple.</copyright>
 </font>
</fonts>
</report>

My problem is, I want to display just the "commonName" value into a certain page design. When I do an include, the entire xml data is just opened into my document right away. I have tried loading with simplexml methods, nothing works. Any ideas on this?

Hello
       this url https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/people/sportsstatus/@groups/@followers?max-results=0 return an xml . I need to parse  <totalResults>  </totalResults>  out of this feed using php .I need to retrieve data for  the <totalresults> field.  Iam stuck with this could not move further as iam new to php.