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Open pdf (toBrowser) in new aba/window #468

Open Gustavo Fraga opened this topic on on Sep 17, 2018 - 2 comments
Gustavo Fraga commented on Sep 17, 2018

This is possible?

KoolReport commented on Sep 18, 2018

Yes, it is possible.

On the view you add:

<a target="_blank" href="export.php">Download PDF</a>

And in the export.php, you do:

...
$report->export()->pdf()->toBrowser("myfile.php",true);

The second true parameter in the toBrowser() function indicate that PDF will open on browser instead of download forcing. And together with target='_blank' on the <a> the browser will open pdf file in a new separated window.

Gustavo Fraga commented on Sep 18, 2018

Thanks for the attention, I feel stupid for not having thought of this before... As I need to send a form to the controller, I wrote this:

<form target="_blank" [...]

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