PDF in a table/div/frame

[xpinvader]

is their a way that i would open my pdf files in a table/div/frame using php?


it goes like this:


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[SambaNeko]

I don't think so, no. PDF isn't a native format to any browser; you can only open it in a browser thanks to plugins.

[kows]

most browsers let you open PDF files with a plugin nowadays, so you could simply make an iframe with the PDF file as the source. but, there are a few ways to either generate PDF files from scratch with PHP, or read them.

after looking around for a little while, I've found plenty of PDF generators but not very many PDF readers. Zend_PDF is a PDF generator/reader that sounds like it would work fine for what you want.

XPDF is an open source PDF reader. it's an application rather than a PHP-specific plugin, but you could run the pdftotext binary using shell_exec() to capture its output.

as far as generators go, they may or may not have the ability to import pre-existing PDFs. the ones I found were PDFlib, Haru PDF, FPDF, and TCPDF. FPDI was an add-on for both FPDF and TCPDF, too. you could google any of those names and find some stuff, I'm sure.