Question

I have managed to use the below snippet of code, to open a pdf in a browser.Instead of opening in the same page, I would like it to open in a new browser tab.

I am not using an tag. This piece of code invokes a number of actions and at the end it is supposed to display the pdf. It works fine, but i would like it to open in a new tab.

Is this possible? and if so could you please explain to me how to do so.

Im using a Magento (EE 12.02) application and its on php 5.3.

$file = $pdf_file_path;
$filename = $file_name;

    header('Content-type: application/pdf');
    header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $filename . '"');
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
    header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');

    @readfile($file);

Answer 1

You can’t do that from that request.

But you can open the link in a new browser window by adding target=”_blank” to your a tag, then browsers usually will use a new tab.