note 82414 deleted from function.header by danbrown

Note Submitter: Alex J. Fierro ---- As stated above, the header is important when using PHP code to generate XML sitemaps. To make the sitemap, I started by adding... AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml to the root .htaccess file so I could run PHP in my XML files. I then created "sitemap.xml" and wrote the code to dynamically write the sitemap. However, when I set the XML header, I was the getting "headers already sent" error. After toying for awhile, I solved the issue. Although XML sitemaps should be encoded in UTF-8, the PHP was giving me header errors unless I encoded the XML file in ANSI. So, I encoded the XML file in ANSI and set the header as... header('Content-type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"',true); ...and it solved the issue. My sitemap now works and passes verification. Hopefully, I'm not making a mistake in encoding and this tip helps someone.