Did you use this?

<?ob_start()?> // use this at the beginning of the php code page

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<?ob_flush()?>// use this at the end of page

I hope this is not present inside echo statement??
If so, you need to remove it.
Also, you did not close the php tags!!

Ok, so $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] forces download.
Thank you dats a good info.

Hi,
Instead of simply specifying the link as <a href="www.sitename.com/documentname.pdf">DocumentPDF</a> , why should we use $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']???
Is there any specific advantage with...