On 30/05/2011, at 9:02 AM, Jim Giner wrote:
> Perhaps someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I did some ( a lot)
> looking around for hints on this and here is what I have compiled. It
> doesn't work - just goes to a white, blank page and sits. I don't know if I
> need all the html parts or even if I have placed my php in the right areas.
>
> BTW - all I want to do is use a menu option to take me to a page that shows
> the pdf. My menu (a js thing) won't let me use an <a> element, so I'm
> trying to just build a php page that I can go to and display the doc
> automacitcally without the user having to click on something..
>
> [code begins]
> <?php
> session_start();
> $root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
> $pdfname='/pdfs/myfile.pdf';
> $length = filesize($pdfname);
> //
> header("Content-type: application/pdf");
> header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".$pdfname);
> header("Content-Length: ".$length);
> //
> ?>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> <body>
> <?
> readfile=$pdfname;
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
> [code ends]
>
> Thanks in advance!
You don't want the HTML, as it's not part of the PDF. The first example on http://php.net/header even shows what you're trying to achieve.
<?php
session_start();
$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$pdfname='/pdfs/myfile.pdf';
$length = filesize($pdfname);
//
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename='.basename($pdfname).'"');
header("Content-Length: ".$length);
//
readfile($pdfname);
---
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