Streaming PDF to php page

[faber]

Is there a way to stream a PDF file to a PHP page? This PDF file would be in a directory that is not web accessible.

[405hp]

A quick web search brings up:
Unintrusively Streaming Pdf Documents Into A Web Page

[faber]

Found those posts already but it's not what I need. Both solutions posted have to do with converting the PDF to flash or images which is not much of a solution IMO.

[405hp]

Then I guess I don't understand what you are after.

If you are not trying to view them within your web page you can probably just attach them to in the header and they will open on the users machine.

[faber]

Found a solution. Here is what I used:

$filename = $_GET['pdfdoc'];
$pdfcontents = file_get_contents($filename);
header('Pragma: public');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Cache-Control: public');
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= pdffile.pdf');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
echo $pdfcontents;