Re: passthru Problems

You need to use a frameset to do what you want. the problem is the browser will only launch the Acrobat control if it receives the content type app/pdf, an html page uses the content type text/html. your links should point to another page that outputs something like the following based on input of the pdf file path and name ( HTML shamelessly stolen from http://www.php4.net/ :-) <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE><?php echo $your_title ?></TITLE> <FRAMESET rows="100%,*" frameborder="0"framespacing="0" border="0" align=CENTER> <FRAME SRC="<?php echo $your_pdf_file_path ?>" Name="pdf" scrolling="auto"> <FRAME SRC="empty.htm" Name="invisible" scrolling="no"> </FRAMESET> </HTML> if you are using track_vars and don't have the auto globalizing of form elements, use $HTTP_GET_VARS[ 'your_title'] $HTTP_GET_VARS[ 'your_pdf_file_path '] or $HTTP_POST_VARS[ 'your_title'] $HTTP_POST_VARS[ 'your_pdf_file_path '] depending on your form method morgan At 03:20 PM 4/12/2001, you wrote:

Greets, Just to elaborate: I want my user to be able to click on a hyperlink that points to my PDF file, and have a new window pop up, displaying the contents of the PDF file in the browser window (without prompting if they should save the file) as well as set the HTML <TITLE> tag to the name of the report. My passthru() function works fine, when I send a header() of PDF first, and then dump the raw PDF out. But, I cannot set any HTML properties with tags (like <TITLE>); it doesn't show the PDF in PDF format then, it shows it all raw encoded. Hope that helps clarifying my wants and needs :-) Cheers, Jason ""Jason Mowat"" <jmowat@digitalpraxis.com> wrote in message news:9b4lso$2gb$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... Greetings, I am having a small problem displaying PDF files to my users via passthru. This is the situation: I have a bunch of PDF files on my server directory. I show the user a listing of the PDF files they can view, and allow them to hyperlink click on the PDF they wish to browse. When the user clicks the link, I execute a header() and then my passthru on my PDF file. The code is essentially: header("Content-type: application/pdf"); passthru($pdf_file); Now, my problem is that the title of the HTML window that pops up is of the URL path. I want to set the title to something meaningful (like the name of the PDF file the user is looking at). But, if I try to print a "<TITLE>PDF File</TITLE>" after the header, my PDF document does not show up (it shows the raw encoding of the PDF document). Does anyone have any suggestions to allow me to show a title on a header/passthru page? Is there a better way to do this? Cheers, Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net