Laravel - display a PDF file in storage without forcing download

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I have a PDF file stored in app storage   and I want authenticated users to be able to view this file  I know that I can make them download it using   return Response  download  path   filename   headers     but I was wondering if there is a way to make them view the file directly in the browser  for example when they are using Google Chrome with the built-in PDF viewer  Any help will be appreciated

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As of laravel 5 5 if the file is stored on a remote storage  return Storage  response  path to file     or if it s locally stored you can also use  return response  - gt file  path to file     I would recommend using the Storage facade

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In Laravel 5 5 you can just pass  inline  as the disposition parameter of the download function   return response  - gt download   path to file pdf    example pdf        inline

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Since Laravel 5 2 you can use File Responses Basically you can call it like this   return response  - gt file  pathToFile     and it will display files as PDF and images inline in the browser

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Ben Swinburne answer was so helpful   The code below is for those who have their PDF file in database like me     pdf   DB  table  exportfiles  - gt select  pdf  - gt where  user id    user id - gt first     return Response  make base64 decode   pdf- gt pdf   200         Content-Type    gt   application pdf        Content-Disposition    gt   inline  filename     filename            Where  pdf- gt pdf is the file column in database

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Laravel 5 6     name    file jpg     store on image or pdf    file- gt storeAs  public     name      download image or pdf  return response  - gt download  name     view image or pdf  return response  - gt file  name

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Retrieving Files  contents   Storage  get  file jpg     Downloading Files return Storage  download  file jpg     File URLs  url   Storage  url  file jpg

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Ben Swinburne s answer is absolutely correct - he deserves the points  For me though the answer left be dangling a bit in Laravel 5 1 which made me research     and in 5 2  which inspired this answer  there s a a new way to do it quickly   Note  This answer contains hints to support UTF-8 filenames  but it is recommended to take cross platform support into consideration    In Laravel 5 2 you can now do this    pathToFile     documents filename pdf      or txt etc      when the file name  display name  is decided by the name in storage     remember to make sure your server can store your file name characters in the first place        then encode to respect RFC 6266 on output through content-disposition  fileNameFromStorage   rawurlencode basename  pathToFile        otherwise  if the file in storage has a hashed file name  recommended     and the display name comes from your DB and will tend to be UTF-8    encode to respect RFC 6266 on output through content-disposition  fileNameFromDatabase   rawurlencode             pdf        Storage facade path is relative to the root directory    Defined as  storage app  in your configuration by default    Remember to import Illuminate Support Facades Storage return response  - gt file storage path  pathToFile          Content-Disposition    gt  str replace   name    fileNameFromDatabase   inline  filename    name    filename  utf-8   name         Content-Type           gt  Storage  getMimeType  pathToFile      e g   application pdf    text plain  etc        And in Laravel 5 1 you can add above method response  - gt file   as a fallback through a Service Provider with a Response Macro in the boot method  make sure to register it using its namespace in config app php if you make it a class   Boot method content      Be aware that I excluded the Storage  exists   and   or try  catch      factory- gt macro  file   function   pathToFile  array  userHeaders       use   factory            Storage facade path is relative to the root directory        Defined as  storage app  in your configuration by default        Remember to import Illuminate Support Facades Storage      storagePath           str ireplace  app         pathToFile       app   may change if different in your configuration      fileContents          Storage  get  storagePath        fileMimeType          Storage  getMimeType  storagePath      e g   application pdf    text plain  etc       fileNameFromStorage   basename  pathToFile      strips the path and returns filename with extension       headers   array merge            Content-Disposition    gt  str replace   name    fileNameFromStorage   inline  filename    name    filename  utf-8   name             Content-Length         gt  strlen  fileContents      mb strlen   in some cases           Content-Type           gt   fileMimeType          userHeaders        return  factory- gt make  fileContents  200   headers         Some of you don t like Laravel Facades or Helper Methods but that choice is yours  This should give you pointers if Ben Swinburne s answer doesn t work for you   Opinionated note  You shouldn t store files in a DB  Nonetheless  this answer will only work if you remove the Storage facade parts  taking in the contents instead of the path as the first parameter as with the  BenSwinburne answer

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I am using Laravel 5 4 and response  - gt file  path to file ext   to open e g  a pdf in inline-mode in browsers  This works quite well  but when a user wants to save the file  the save-dialog suggests the last part of the url as filename   I already tried adding a headers-array like mentioned in the Laravel-docs  but this doesn t seem to override the header set by the file  -method   return response  - gt file  path to file ext        Content-Disposition    gt   inline  filename      fileNameFromDb

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Update for 2017  As of Laravel 5 2 documented under Other response types you can now use the file helper to display a file in the user s browser   return response  - gt file  pathToFile    return response  - gt file  pathToFile   headers     Source thanks to below answer  Outdated answer from 2014  You just need to send the contents of the file to the browser and tell it the content type rather than tell the browser to download it    filename    test pdf    path   storage path  filename    return Response  make file get contents  path   200         Content-Type    gt   application pdf        Content-Disposition    gt   inline  filename     filename           If you use Response  download it automatically sets the Content-Disposition to attachment which causes the browser to download it  See this question for the differences between Content-Disposition inline and attachment   Edit  As per the request in the comments  I should point out that you d need to use Response at the beginning of your file in order to use the Facade   use Response    Or the fully qualified namespace if Response isn t aliased to Illuminate s Response Facade

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Retrieve File name first then in Blade file use anchor a  tag like below shown  This would works for image view also   lt a href     asset  storage admission-document-uploads      filename      target   black  gt  view Pdf  lt  a gt

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