<div>
<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-265827"><span>&lt;?php</span>
<span>header(&quot;Content-Type: application/force-download&quot;);</span>
<span>?&gt;</span>
</code></pre>
</div>


<div>
Will this make to force to open in a window?<br />
<br />
I don't want to popup as download dialog? instead it should open in new window itself... so that user will read the doc and close it ...<br />
<br />
<br />

</div>


<div>
I think IE works perfect, it opens as new window to read the pdf.. FF makes to download dialog<br />

</div>


<div>
So no other way in the client side?<br />

</div>


<div>
<br />

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-265836"><span>&lt;?php</span>
<span>if(!empty($_GET['download']) &amp;&amp; file_exists($_GET['download']) &amp;&amp; strtolower(pathinfo(parse_url($_GET['download'], PHP_URL_PATH), PATHINFO_EXTENSION ))=='pdf')</span>
<span> {</span>
<span>  $pdf = $_GET['download'];</span>
<span>	header('Content-type: application/pdf');</span>
<span>	header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=&quot;'.pathinfo(parse_url($pdf, PHP_URL_PATH), PATHINFO_BASENAME).'&quot;');</span>
<span>	header(&quot;Content-Length: &quot;.filesize($pdf)); </span>
<span>	readfile($pdf);</span>
<span>  }</span>
<span>else {</span>
<span>	echo &quot;&lt;h1&gt;PDF Not Found at $pdf&lt;/h1&gt;&quot;;</span>
<span>}</span>
<span>?&gt; </span>
</code></pre>
</div>


<div>
You need: Content-Disposition: inline
</div>


<div>
You could also try placing this in .htaccess<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-265837"><span>&lt;Files *.pdf&gt;</span>
<span>ForceType application/pdf</span>
<span>Header set Content-Disposition inline</span>
<span>&lt;/Files&gt;</span>
</code></pre>
</div>


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Is there any way to force to open the pdf document instead of popup to download.. this occurs in mozilla firefox .. IE it is opening automatically..how to make it for FF?
</div>
</div>


Is there any way to force to open the pdf document instead of popup to download.. this occurs in mozilla firefox .. IE it is opening automatically..how to make it for FF?

Is there any way to force to open the pdf document?

Web development includes all aspects of presenting content on intranets and the Internet, including delivery development, protocols, languages and standards, server software, browser clients, databases and multimedia generation.

Web Development

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.