Generating a PDF file in Laravel can be done using a popular PHP library called “Dompdf”. Here are the steps to generate a PDF file in Laravel using Dompdf:
Step 1: Install the Dompdf library via Composer. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
composer require dompdf/dompdf
Step 2: Create a new route in your Laravel application that will generate the PDF file. For example, you could create a route in your web.php
file like this:
Route::get('/generate-pdf', 'PdfController@generatePdf');
Step 3: Create a new controller called PdfController
by running the following command in your terminal:
php artisan make:controller PdfController
Step 4: In your PdfController
, add a new method called generatePdf
that will generate the PDF file. Here’s an example implementation:
use Dompdf\Dompdf;
public function generatePdf()
{
// Instantiate a new Dompdf instance
$pdf = new Dompdf();
// Generate the PDF
$pdf->loadHtml('<h1>Hello, world!</h1>');
$pdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape');
$pdf->render();
// Output the generated PDF to the browser
$pdf->stream();
}
Step 5: Visit the URL that you created in step 2 in your web browser. This should generate a PDF file containing the text “Hello, world!” in landscape orientation.
This was just the basic example of generating a PDF file in Laravel using the dompdf PHP library. To know more about other options and configurations you can visit the https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf Github repository.