Use the response class to set the headers from the controller:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#CakeResponse::type


Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 13:45:58 UTC+2 schrieb Adrian Tello:
>
> The header tags should be used in the controller, not in the view.
> El 20/08/2013 22:25, "Gray McCord" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> escribió:
>
>> I've been using PHP for a while, but am new to Cake. What I am attempting 
>> to do is create a vCard on the fly in a PHP variable and download it to a 
>> client.  To do that, I need to set the response header to something like 
>> "Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8" and then add a 
>> 'Content-Disposition: attachment ; filename=\"vcardname.vcf\" ' header. I 
>> have done this successfully in standalone PHP by just using the "header" 
>> function, but it seems that no matter what I do, the CakePHP view just 
>> displays the vCard in text and sets the content type to text/html.
>>
>> I've been Googling and reading for a couple of days and have not made any 
>> progress. I freely admit that I'm probably missing something basic, but I 
>> just can't figure out what. 
>>
>> My download.ctp view file looks like this:
>>
>> ....Some code to make a vcard from a DB record in $vcard
>>
>> header("Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8");
>> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"vcardname.vcf\";");
>> echo $vcard;
>>
>> Pretty basic.  If I run this code as a standalone PHP script, it 
>> downloads the file to my browser as expected. When I run it as a Cake view 
>> tied to a controller action, it just echoes the vcard variable to the 
>> screen and leaves the content type as text/html.
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gray
>>
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