How to Generate a PDF in Laravel View ?

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:

It will install all the dependencies of laravel-dompdf package in your laravel project.

Step 2: Configure laravel-dompdf package

Just go to Config/App.php and create these entries in providers and aliases.

Step 3: Create a blade file

Inside the resources >> views folder, create a new file called layout.blade.php.

Step 4: Create Models and Migrations for it

To create the migration run this command

To create the Model run this command

Now go to the mmigration file i.e create_pdf_data_table and add your columns.

Now run migrate command

Step 5: Create controllers and Routes

Ex: PDF contrtoller. So, run this command

Now inside your web->routes.php, Create two routes for create and store the data

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:

Also, add the fillable fields inside the PDFData.php model file.

Step 8: View the data into a blade file

Step: 9 Create a route to download the pdf file

Add the following code inside the route file.

Now, update the list.blade.php file and add the Download PDF link.

Step: 10 Create pdf.blade.php file to design the PDF

We have created a simple table which will be generated inside the PDF.

Step: 11 Write a controller function to download the PDF

And this is it. You can now download your generated file into PDF Format.
Source:
DOM  PDF Github

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