如何从Symfony中的视图下载文件

Question

I have a app made with Symfony2 and in my twig template, I show a table with some pdf files.

This pdf files (one for user) are stored in /app/var/pdf/xxx.pdf.

If I use:

<a href="{{ 'entity.pdf' }}">PDF</a>

My path is correct, for example: symfony/app/var/pdf/123123.pdf, but when I click in the link, my browser return a 404 Not Found error. Obviusly I have checked that the file is stored in this path.

Any help?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You better need to store this file in public web dir, and then create link to it like:

<a href="{{ asset('web/var/pdf/xxx.pdf') }}"/>PDF</a>

But browsers open pdf files in new tab. And if you really want to force dowload of this file, need to use headers. Use this question for help Symfony2 - Force file download