displaying a pdf

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!