How to make PDF viewer in PHP

Question

I want to open PDF file with PHP. Don't want to use Flash. Like google doc viewer. I just want to open PDF file. Can I do with PHP ?

Answer 1

PHP cannot natively open and display a PDF file to the browser. In most cases you want to just send the file to the browser and allow the Adobe Reader to open and display the file. However, if you are looking to pull data out of the PDF itself, then the PDF function built-into PHP may be of some help.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php