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How can I download a pdf file using php

Jun 19th, 2004 11:17
Philip Olson, Sbongile Maseko, http://www.php.net/header

You may force a PDF file by sending proper HTTP headers to the users 
client (such as their browser) so for example let's say we have a file 
named original.pdf and we want to force the user to download it and for 
fun we'll rename it downloaded.pdf:
<?php
 // We'll be outputting a PDF
 header('Content-type: application/pdf');
 // It will be called downloaded.pdf
 header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
 // The PDF source is in original.pdf
 readfile('original.pdf');
?>
See also the PHP manual for header() here:
  http://www.php.net/header