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14-01-2020
In this article, you will learn how to generate or create pdf in laravel web application using a dom pdf package.
First Step, you need to download or install laravel web application new setup on your local machine. you can use the following command to download or install laravel application new setup:
composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-pdf –-prefer-dist
If you want to install a specific version of laravel, you can follow the following tutorial
https://w3alert.com/laravel-tutorial/laravel-install-on-windows-ubuntu-with-composer
After that, you will set up the database credentials in .env file. So open your .env file and update database credentials following:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=database_name DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD=root
Before you will run php artisan migrate command. Go to app/providers/AppServiceProvider.php and update the below code :
..
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
....
function boot()
{
Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
}
...
Next, go to command prompt and run the following command:
php artisan migrate OR php artisan migrate:fresh
This php artisan migrate command creates a table in your database.
Next, you need to Install laravel barryvdh dompdf Package in your laravel web applications. So go to your command prompt and run the following command to install the latest laravel Install barryvdh dompdf Package:
composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
When the package of laravel-dompdf Package is installed. After that this package will have to be registered in the Laravel web application of the app. For this, you can register this package of instruction follow below.
App_root_directory/config/app.php
'providers' => [ Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class, ], 'aliases' => [ 'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class, ]
When you will register the package of Maatwesite. After that, the package will have to be published with the command following command.
Next, we need to generate fake data into the MySQL database table by using php artisan command. So go to your command prompt (cli) and then go to your project root directory. After that run the following command:
php artisan tinker
After run the php artisan tinker. Use the following command. This command will add 200 fake data in your MySQL database table users:
>>> factory(App\User::class, 200)->create();
Next step, go to routes/web.php file and update the following routes into your file:
Route::get('generate-pdf', '[email protected]');
Now, you need to generate or create a controller file using php artisan command, so use the php artisan make:controller command and generate/create a new controller file:
php artisan make:controller GeneratePDFController
In this controller file, we will create new method. This method will create pdf.
After that, go to App/Http/Controllers/ directory and find the created GeneratePDFController file and update the following code into your file:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Redirect;
use PDF;
class GeneratePDFController extends Controller
{
public function pdf(){
$data['users'] = User::get();
$pdf = PDF::loadView('users-list', $data);
return $pdf->download('sample.pdf');
}
}
Next, you need to create a blade views file, so go resource/views directory and create the following blade views file.
Go to resource/views/ then create a new file name users-list.blade.php and update the following code:
<table class="table table-bordered">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
<th>Created at</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
@foreach($users as $user)
<tr>
<td>{{ $user->id }}</td>
<td>{{ $user->name }}</td>
<td>{{ $user->email }}</td>
<td>{{ date('d m Y', strtotime($user->created_at)) }}</td>
</tr>
@endforeach
</tbody>
</table>
You can use the following command artisan command to start the development server:
php artisan serve
The final step, go to your browser and type the below-given URL into your browser:
http://localhost:8000/generate-pdf OR http://localhost/laravel-pdf/public/generate-pdf
This tutorial idea has taken from this https://www.tutsmake.com/laravel-generate-or-create-pdf-in-laravel-6-example/