Display the PDF file in new tab instead of "SAVE" download prompt.

Hi,

The Files feature of HikaShop is to allow customers/users to download the files. So of course, it forces the download.
If you want to change that, you'll have to change the content-type header sent by HikaShop.
There are two ways you can do it:
1. You edit the lines:
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
to:
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/file.php
It's easy to do, but there are several downsides: You'll loose the change when you update and it won't support other file types properly.
2. You can create a custom Joomla plugin of the group "hikashop" implementing the trigger onBeforeDownloadFile(&$filename, &$do, &$file, $options) in your plugin and sending the file yourself to the user based on the data provided by HikaShop to the trigger function in your plugin. You can read more about creating plugins here:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...mentation.html#intro

Hi,

Well, I didn't expand on this.
This modification actually doesn't change the way your browser with behave directly.
What this modification changes, is that the browser knows that the file it is downloading is a PDF file instead of a random file.
Knowing that, the browser, based on how you configured it, will download or open the file.
Now, you can also change the line:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"');
to:
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $name . '"');
in order to ask the browser to try to open the file rather than its default action for the file type you're sending.

Hi,

Yes.
The code change I gave before is to open the file in the browser instead of downloading it.
If you want it to be in a new tab, you need to change the line:

$files[] = '<a class="hikashop_product_file_link" href="' .  $file->download_link . '">' . $file->file_name . '</a>';

$files[] = '<a class="hikashop_product_file_link" target="_blank" href="' .  $file->download_link . '">' . $file->file_name . '</a>';

Hi,

If you did the change as a view override ( www.hikashop.com/forum/product-category-...d-prompt.html#337781 ), you should not need to redo it after the update and it should still work even after the update.
So I'm not clear on the situation.
Can you provide a link to a product page with the issue so that we can check on the situation ?

Hi,

You made a typo.
You wrote
header('Content-Type: application/pdfm');
instead of
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');

Please double check your modifications.