Display PDF

[eluser]sbarow[/eluser]
Hey,

This is a really simple thing to do, but it seems in codeigniter is it s bit of a problem.

I have a view that has a button to view an uploaded PDF, all I want is for the PDF to be opened and viewed like in normal HTML. The button (Link) sends the viewer to

Code:

base_url().site/pdf/12345_brochure.pdf

With pdf being the function and 12345_brochure.pdf being the method. This method is pulled from a database so it will be different when a new brochure is uploaded by the client.

How would I then get that PDF to display

Code:

function pdf($item)
    {
    
        fopen("images/image/$item", "");

    }

I have tried the above code but I get the following error fopen(images/image/453021504.brochure_test_.pdf) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory I have also tried to with the base_url() included but does not help.

Really appreciate any help.

Thanks very much.