How to Show files in browser instead of download using laravel 5.6?

Question

I want to show files (pdf, docx etc) in browser once click on a button instead of download.

Welcome to stackoverflow! Could you please update your post to include the code that you're using right now and the solutions you've tried that didn't work? — Travis Britz, Feb 27 '19 at 05:22
Travis Britz i tried multiple solutions for it using google but find nothing, so i asked here — Aleem Zada, Feb 27 '19 at 05:27
@AleemZada if you have tried something, you should describe that, you'll save your time and ours. Please read [how to ask a good question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask). — Don't Panic, Feb 27 '19 at 06:15

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 05:24

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file() method is used to display an image or PDF directly in user's browser.

return response()->file($pathToFile);

or

return response()->file($pathToFile, $headers);

Read this more here

answered Feb 27 '19 at 05:24

Afraz Ahmad

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from controller, i am returning information for a book, in view i'm displaying book information like book name, book category and i have a path to the Book. i have displayed the book in anchor tag. how i can show the path of book to preview in browser instead of download – Aleem Zada Feb 27 '19 at 05:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '19 at 07:12

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i used the google docs to view pdf files.

here is my code --

<a href="http://docs.google.com/gview?url={{ URL::to($tableof1->content) }}" target="_blank">{{$tableof1->content_title}}</a>

answered Feb 27 '19 at 07:12

Berns

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what if i want to show word document sir ? – Aleem Zada Feb 27 '19 at 07:26
yes, you can open word documents in google docs – Berns Feb 27 '19 at 09:37

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 06:13

As far as I understood the question, you can try to display file type like images and pdf using return response()->file($pathToFile, $headers);

but you can not show docx file directly in the browser. You need some kind of conversion which browser can support in order to show docx onto the browser

How to Show files in browser instead of download using laravel 5.6?

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