Read/output PDF documents without PDFlib

Anon

Hi all, I have a site on a host who does not have the PDFlib. Is there still a way for me to read/output exsiting PDF documents on the server filesystem without the library?

Mabey something like this would work?

<?php

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf");
header("Content-length: " . strlen($data));

echo test.pdf;

any help greatly appricated!!!!

theslinky

Yep, exactly what you said, but just change the echo line:

<?php

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf");
header("Content-length: " . strlen($data));

$fd = fopen("test.pdf", "r");
fpassthru($fd);
fclose($fd);

-sridhar

Anon

Thanks for such a quick supply, Hmmm I tried using what you suggested and i seemed to get an error, heres the code again

<?php

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf");
header("Content-length: " . strlen($data));

$fd = fopen("test.pdf", "r");
fpassthru($fd);
fclose($fd);

it gives me a pop up error which says file does not begin with "%pdf-"

the file is named test.pdf and is in the same directory as the script

anymore suggestions?

Thanks again!

theslinky

hmmm very odd! but i suspect this line is the culprit:

header("Content-length: " . strlen($data));

change it to:

header("Content-length: " . filesize("test.pdf"));

The filesize() will get the size (in bytes) of the filename you pass in as the argument.

-sridhar

Anon

That did it, that solved the problem. You myfriend are thee man indeed!!!

Thanks again!