How to create a Web-Based Document Viewer in PHP

Cloudmersive

Apr 23·1 min read

A web-based document viewer can make for an excellent addition to any project. But at what cost! Well, if you follow this tutorial, you’ll be done in 5 minutes. Let’s dive in.

With this command for composer, our API client can be installed without a hitch.

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_document_convert_api_client

And our next step will be calling the function viewerToolsCreateSimple.

<?phprequire_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');// Configure API key authorization: Apikey$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed// $config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKeyPrefix('Apikey', 'Bearer');$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\ViewerToolsApi(// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.new GuzzleHttp\Client(),$config);$input_file = "/path/to/file"; // \SplFileObject | Input file to perform the operation on.try {$result = $apiInstance->viewerToolsCreateSimple($input_file);print_r($result);} catch (Exception $e) {echo 'Exception when calling ViewerToolsApi->viewerToolsCreateSimple: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;}?>

The API will proceed to create a viewer for the input file and then return the embed code for said viewer. It’s really just that easy.