How to open a pdf file in new tab from controller PHP (laravel)

Question

Hi I am new to php programming. I am using laravel 5.2 now.

I have used an external service to create a pdf from my html page. For that I have used pdfcrowd. I wrote the content to a pdf file in my local system. Its location is /var/www/html/testproject/test_pdf.pdf .

It works fine. Now my requirement is that, I have to open that pdf file in a new tab from my controller. My controller name is adminController. Inside that I used a function to open the pdf.

Please see the code below:

public function open_pdf() {
  $file_location='/var/www/html/testproject/test_pdf.pdf';
  ----------?
}

Please suggest your ideas.

Answer 1

The important thing to understand is that, we can't open a new tab from php controller. So In the view page (testpage.blade.php) I used 'target="_blank" code in a tag. please see the code below: <a href="{{ url('/') }}/testproject/openpdf"> target="_blank"

Answer 2

Try to add target="_blank" in your html tags it will work fine. You may have use like this

<a href="{{ url('/') }}/testproject/openpdf">

please try with this

<a href="{{ url('/') }}/testproject/openpdf" target="_blank">