What is dompdf liberary ?
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter The dompdf is (mostly) the CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP language.
It is the style-driven renderer: it will download and read an external stylesheets, inline style tags, and all the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes.
How to generate a PDF ?
Step 1: Install the laravel-dompdf package
With the help of a composer you can easily install the dependencies of laravel-dompdf package.
Simply run this command inside your laravel project:
1 | composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf |
It will install all the dependencies of laravel-dompdf package in your laravel project.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | ➜ laravel6 git:(master) composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf Using version ^0.8.5 for barryvdh/laravel-dompdf ./composer.json has been updated Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Package operations: 5 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals - Installing sabberworm/php-css-parser (8.3.0): Downloading (100%) - Installing phenx/php-svg-lib (v0.3.3): Downloading (100%) - Installing phenx/php-font-lib (0.5.1): Downloading (100%) - Installing dompdf/dompdf (v0.8.3): Downloading (100%) - Installing barryvdh/laravel-dompdf (v0.8.5): Downloading (100%) dompdf/dompdf suggests installing ext-imagick (Improves image processing performance) dompdf/dompdf suggests installing ext-gmagick (Improves image processing performance) Writing lock file Generating optimized autoload files > Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump > @php artisan package:discover --ansi Discovered Package: barryvdh/laravel-dompdf Discovered Package: facade/ignition Discovered Package: fideloper/proxy Discovered Package: laravel/tinker Discovered Package: laravel/ui Discovered Package: nesbot/carbon Discovered Package: nunomaduro/collision Package manifest generated successfully. |
Step 2: Configure laravel-dompdf package
Just go to Config/App.php and create these entries in providers and aliases.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | 'providers' => [ .... Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class, ], 'aliases' => [ .... 'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class, ], |
Step 3: Create a blade file
Inside the resources >> views folder, create a new file called layout.blade.php.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge"> <title>Laravel 6 CRUD Example</title> <link href="{{ asset('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="container"> @yield('content') </div> <script src="{{ asset('js/app.js') }}" type="text/js"></script> </body> </html> |
Step 4: Create Models and Migrations for it
To create the migration run this command
1 | php artisan make:migration create_pdf_data_table |
To create the Model run this command
1 | php artisan make:model PDFData |
Now go to the mmigration file i.e create_pdf_data_table and add your columns.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | public function up() { Schema::create('disneypluses', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->bigIncrements('id'); $table->string('show_name'); $table->string('series'); $table->string('lead_actor'); $table->timestamps(); }); } |
Now run migrate command
1 | php artisan migrate |
Step 5: Create controllers and Routes
Ex: PDF contrtoller. So, run this command
1 | php artisan make:controller PDF Controller -resources |
Now inside your web->routes.php, Create two routes for create and store the data
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Step 6: Get the data from the user
Create a form and get the data from the user and send it to the controller via he routes you have created already.
Step 7: Store your data into the database
Store the data yiou have fetched from the form and create an entry into the database:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | <?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use App\PDFGenerate; class PDFGenerateController extends Controller { public function create() { return view('form'); } public function store(Request $request) { $validatedData = $request->validate([ 'company_name' => 'required|max:255', 'department_name' => 'required|max:255', 'team_lead_name' => 'required|max:255', ]); PDFGenerate::create($validatedData); return redirect('/pdfgenerate')->with('success', 'Your PDF Data is successfully saved'); } } |
Also, add the fillable fields inside the PDFData.php model file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | <?php namespace App; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; class Disneyplus extends Model { protected $fillable = ['show_name', 'series', 'lead_actor']; } |
Step 8: View the data into a blade file
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | @extends('layout') @section('content') <table class="table table-striped"> <thead> <th>ID</th> <th>Show Name</th> <th>Series</th> <th>Lead Actor</th> <th>Action</th> </thead> <tbody> @foreach($shows as $show) <tr> <td>{{$show->id}}</td> <td>{{$show->company_name}}</td> <td>{{$show->department_name}}</td> <td>{{$show->team_lead_name}}</td> </tr> @endforeach </tbody> </table> @endsection |
Step: 9 Create a route to download the pdf file
Add the following code inside the route file.
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Now, update the list.blade.php file and add the Download PDF link.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | @foreach($shows as $show) <tr> <td>{{$show->id}}</td> <td>{{$show->company_name}}</td> <td>{{$show->department_name}}</td> <td>{{$show->team_lead_name}}</td> </tr> @endforeach |
Step: 10 Create pdf.blade.php file to design the PDF
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> <table class="table table-bordered"> <thead> <tr> <td><b>Company Name</b></td> <td><b>Department Name</b></td> <td><b>Team Lead name</b></td> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> {{$show->company_name}} </td> <td> {{$show->department_name}} </td> <td> {{$show->team_lead_name}} </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html> |
We have created a simple table which will be generated inside the PDF.
Step: 11 Write a controller function to download the PDF
1 2 3 4 5 6 | public function downloadPDF($id) { $show = Disneyplus::find($id); $pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf', compact('show')); return $pdf->download('disney.pdf'); } |
And this is it. You can now download your generated file into PDF Format.
Source:
DOM PDF Github
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