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Laravel 8 PDF Tutorial Generate HTML to PDF file using DomPDF

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https://codeanddeploy.com/blog/laravel/laravel-8-pdf-tutorial-generate-html-to-pdf-file-using-dompdf

In this post is a Laravel 8 PDF tutorial on how to generate HTML to PDF files using DomPDF. Sometimes in our application, we need to generate a PDF file for reporting or maybe an invoice. Let's do this by using the Laravel DomPDF package which is easier for us because we just use an HTML view and convert it to PDF.

So let's start the tutorial and generate Laravel PDF.

Step 1: Laravel Installation

If you don't have a Laravel 8 install in your local just run the following command below:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-pdf-example

cd laravel-pdf-example
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Step 2: Install dompdf Package

To generate HTML to PDF in Laravel we need to install barryvdh/laravel-dompdf package. Run the following command below:

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
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Step 3: Setup Routes and Controller

Let's create routes and controller for our Laravel PDF generator.

routes.php/web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\PdfController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('pdf', [PdfController::class, 'index']);
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Run the command below to make a controller:

php artisan make:controller PdfController
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Then edit the PdfController generated. See below:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use PDF;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class PdfController extends Controller
{
    public function index() 
    {
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf.sample', [
            'title' => 'CodeAndDeploy.com Laravel Pdf Tutorial',
            'description' => 'This is an example Laravel pdf tutorial.',
            'footer' => 'by <a href="https://codeanddeploy.com">codeanddeploy.com</a>'
        ]);

        return $pdf->download('sample.pdf');
    }
}
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Step 4: Setup View

Now, let's setup our view for our PDF generator. In this example I create a pdf folder inside resources/views/ then create a blade file sample.blade.php. See below sample code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>{{ $title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>{{ $description }}</p>

    <br>

    <p>Put your text here.</p>

    <p>Place your dynamic content here.</p>

    <br>

    <p style="text-align: center;">{!! $footer !!}</p>
</body>
</html>
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Now, our code is ready let's test it by running the commands below:

php artisan serve
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then run the URL below to your browser:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/pdf
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Here is the example generated result of Laravel PDF using dompdf:

laravel-8-pdf

I hope this tutorial can help you. Kindly visit here https://codeanddeploy.com/blog/laravel/laravel-8-pdf-tutorial-generate-html-to-pdf-file-using-dompdf if you want to download this code.

Happy coding :)

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