pdf to browser

safra

Hi,

I am looking for a way to load pdf files in the browser without linking to the actual pdf file but by loading it from a script, by using something like:

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
...

Anyone knows how to do this?

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

What all have you tried? It should be as simple as outputting the appropriate header(s) and then using something like [man]readfile/man to output the binary contents of the PDF file.

safra

Before I posted I tried this but it doesn't work.

if(!$fp = fopen($file,"r")){echo "error reading file"; die() ;}
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
while (! feof($fp)) {
       $buffer = fread($fp,filesize($file));
       print $buffer; 
}

readfile() has the same results. Something is going on and the status bar says "Downloading from...";

But the page remains blank when finished with this as the source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

safra

I should have mentioned that I am using sessions and ssl. The code above works well and also readfile() works well but for some reason You will have to include session_cache_limiter('none'); when using sessions and ssl.

Apparantly this is an IE issue.

jordy

just my two cents but you can try this one as well. be a little bit more complete on the headers ..

<?php
if (! $fp = fopen ( $file, "r" )) 
	die ( "error reading file" );

header ( "Pragma: public" );
header ( "Expires: 0" );
header ( "Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0" );
header ( "Cache-Control: private", false );
header ( "Content-Type: application/pdf" );
header ( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . filename ( $file ) . "\";" );
header ( "Content-Transfer-Encoding:* binary" );
header ( "Content-Length: " . filesize ( $file ) );

file_get_contents($file);
exit();
?>

robinjackman

that's right its an IE issue.