John Davidson

Message:

My code doesn't save pdf's, I need to show it. If it's possible download it too.

<td><a name="Manual" href="{{asset('storage/app').'/'.$machineData->getManual()}}">

                Manual de {{$machineData->getMachineName()}}</a></td>

On controller I have this

protected function downloadFile($src)

{

    if(is_file($src))

    {

        $finfo=finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);

        $content_type=finfo_file($finfo,$src);

        finfo_open($finfo);

        $file_name=basename($src).PHP_EOL;

        $size=filesize($src);

        header("Content-Type: $content_type");

        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file_name");

        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

        header("Content-Length: $size");

       

        return true;

    }

    else

    {

        return false;

    }

}

public function download(Request $request)

{

    $note=$request->file('manual');

    if(!$this->downloadFile(app_path(). $note))

    {

        return redirect("/machineIndex");

       

    }



}

Please help, I just want to show the file, thanks!!

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My Answer:
To view and download a PDF file stored in the public/storage directory in Laravel, you can use the following code:

In your blade file:
html

Manual de {{ $machineData->getMachineName() }}


In your controller:
php
public function download(Request $request)
{
$note = $request->file('manual');
$filePath = storage_path('app/' . $note);

if (file_exists($filePath)) {
return response()->file($filePath);
} else {
return redirect("/machineIndex");
}
}


This code will generate a link in your view that will open the PDF file in a new tab when clicked. If you want to force the download of the file instead, you can modify the controller code to use the `response()->download()` method instead of `response()->file()`.