Try to show pdf file using PHP and fpdf

Question

Background: Its\' a e learning website, when user in the learning stage, it will show content for reading at first 3 pages, and after that it will need user

Answer 1

FPDF allows you a few options in outputting PDFs. You can force the download, save the file to a filesystem, or you can display them on the page, but what you can't do is generate a PDF and show it inline as Jasper mentioned. Here's what you'll do:

Create a new file (maybe, show_pdf.php):

    require("../fpdf.php");

    $pdf = new FPDF();
    $pdf->AddPage();
    $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
    $pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
    if (preg_match("/MSIE/i", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])){
        header("Content-type: application/PDF");
    } else {
        header("Content-type: application/PDF");
        header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
    }
    $pdf->Output();

You may need to pass in specific data parameters via $_GET to make this work right as you expand this code.

To show it on the page, you'll do something like this:

else if ($cur_page == $no_of_paginations){
?>