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Mail Tracker

Mubashar Ahmad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:20:24 +0000

MailTracker will hook into all outgoing emails from Laravel and inject a tracking code into it. It will also store the rendered email in the database. There is also an interface to view sent emails.

NOTE: If you are using Laravel 9.x you MUST be on version 9.6.0 or higher.

Upgrade from 1.0

First, upgrade to version 2.0 by running:

composer require zanysoft/mail-tracker ~2.0

If you are updating from an earlier version, you will need to update the config file and run the new migrations. For best results, make a backup copy of config/mail-tracker.php and the views in resources/views/vendor/emailTrackingViews (if they exists) to restore any values you have customized, then delete that file and run

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ZanySoft\MailTracker\MailTrackerServiceProvider" --force

php artisan migrate

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require zanysoft/mail-tracker

Publish the config file and migration

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ZanySoft\MailTracker\MailTrackerServiceProvider"

Run the migration

php artisan migrate

Note: If you would like to use a different connection to store your models,
you should update the mail-tracker.php config entry connection before running the migrations.

If you would like to use your own migrations, you can skip this library migrations by calling MailTracker::ignoreMigrations(). For example:

// In AppServiceProvider

public function register()
{
    MailTracker::ignoreMigrations();
}

Usage

Once installed, all outgoing mail will be logged to the database. The following config options are available in config/mail-tracker.php:

name: set your App Name.
inject-pixel: set to true to inject a tracking pixel into all outgoing html emails.
track-links: set to true to rewrite all anchor href links to include a tracking link. The link will take the user back to your website which will then redirect them to the final destination after logging the click.
expire-days: How long in days that an email should be retained in your database. If you are sending a lot of mail, you probably want it to eventually expire. Set it to zero to never purge old emails from the database.
route: The route information for the tracking URLs. Set the prefix and middlware as desired.
admin-route: The route information for the admin. Set the prefix and middleware.
admin-template: The params for the Admin Panel and Views. You can integrate your existing Admin Panel with the MailTracker admin panel.
date-format: You can define the format to show dates in the Admin Panel.
content-max-size: You can overwrite default maximum length limit for content database field. Do not forget update it's type from text if you need to make it longer.

If you do not wish to have an email tracked, then you can add the X-No-Track header to your message. Put any random string into this header to prevent the tracking from occurring. The header will be removed from the email prior to being sent.

\Mail::send('email.test', [], function ($message) {
    // ... other settings here
    $message->getHeaders()->addTextHeader('X-No-Track',Str::random(10));
});

Storing content of mails in filesystem

By default, the content of an e-mail is stored in the content column in the database so that the e-mail can be viewed after it has been sent.
If a lot of emails are sent, this can consume a lot of memory and slow down the database overall. It is possible to specify in the configuration that the content should be saved to a file in the file system.

    'log-content-strategy' => 'filesystem',
    'tracker-filesystem' => null
    'tracker-filesystem-folder' => 'mail-tracker',

To use the filesystem you need to change the log-content-strategy from database to filesystem.
You can specify the disk with tracker-filesystem and the folder it should store the file in with tracker-filesystem-folder.

Overriding models

In some cases you want to override the built-in models. You can do so easily for example in you AppServiceProvider with

MailTracker::useSentEmailModel(YourOwnSentEmailModel::class);
MailTracker::useSentEmailUrlClickedModel(YourOwnSentEmailUrlClickedModel::class);

Your model should implement to SentEmailModel or SentEmailUrlClickedModel interface. This package provides traits to easily implement your own models but not have to reimplement or copy existing code.

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use ZanySoft\MailTracker\Concerns\IsSentEmailModel;
use ZanySoft\MailTracker\Contracts\SentEmailModel;

class OwnEmailSentModel extends Model implements SentEmailModel {
    use IsSentEmailModel;

    protected static $unguarded = true;

    protected $casts = [
        'meta' => 'collection',
        'opened_at' => 'datetime',
        'clicked_at' => 'datetime',
    ];
}

Skip Tracking for Specific Emails

If you have a specific email that you do not want to track, you can add the X-No-Track header to the email. This will prevent the email from being tracked. The header will be removed from the email prior to being sent.

In laravel 9 onwards you can introduce a headers method to your Mailable class. This will stop the tracking pixel/click tracking from applying to the Mailable

public function headers()
{
    return [
        'X-No-Track' => Str::random(10),
    ];
}

Skipping Open/Click Tracking for Anti-virus/Spam Filters

Some mail servers might scan emails before they deliver which can trigger the tracking pixel, or even clicked links. You can add an event listener to the ValidActionEvent to handle this.

class ValidUserListener {
    public function handle(ValidActionEvent $event)
    {
        if (in_array(request()->userAgent(), ['Mozilla/5.0', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246 Mozilla/5.0']) {
            $event->skip = true;
        }
    }
}

Ensure you add the listener to the ValidActionEvent in your EventServiceProvider, if you aren't using automatic event discovery.

Events

When an email is sent, viewed, or a link is clicked, its tracking information is counted in the database using the ZanySoft\MailTracker\Model\SentEmail model. This processing is done via dispatched jobs to the queue in order to prevent the database from being overwhelmed in an email blast situation. You may choose the queue that these events are dispatched via the mail-tracker.tracker-queue config setting, or leave it null to use the default queue. By using a non-default queue, you can prioritize application-critical tasks above these tracking tasks.

You may want to do additional processing on these events, so an event is fired in these cases:

ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\EmailSentEvent
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\ViewEmailEvent
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
- Public attribute ip_address contains the IP address that was used to trigger the event
ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\LinkClickedEvent
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
- Public attribute ip_address contains the IP address that was used to trigger the event
- Public attribute link_url contains the clicked URL

If you are using the Amazon SNS notification system, these events are fired so you can do additional processing.

ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\EmailDeliveredEvent (when you received a "message delivered" event, you may want to mark the email as "good" or "delivered" in your database)
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
- Public attribute email_address contains the specific address that was used to trigger the event
ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\ComplaintMessageEvent (when you received a complaint, ex: marked as "spam", you may want to remove the email from your database)
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
- Public attribute email_address contains the specific address that was used to trigger the event
ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\PermanentBouncedMessageEvent (when you receive a permanent bounce, you may want to mark the email as bad or remove it from your database) ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\TransientBouncedMessageEvent (when you receive a transient bounce. Check the event's public attributes for bounce_sub_type and diagnostic_code to determine if you want to do additional processing when this event is received.)
- Public attribute sent_email contains the SentEmail model
- Public attribute email_address contains the specific address that was used to trigger the event

To install an event listener, you will want to create a file like the following:

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\ViewEmailEvent;

class EmailViewed
{
    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     *
     * @param  ViewEmailEvent  $event
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle(ViewEmailEvent $event)
    {
        // Access the model using $event->sent_email...
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\PermanentBouncedMessageEvent;

class BouncedEmail
{
    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     *
     * @param  PermanentBouncedMessageEvent  $event
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle(PermanentBouncedMessageEvent $event)
    {
        // Access the email address using $event->email_address...
    }
}

Then you must register the events you want to act on in your \App\Providers\EventServiceProvider \$listen array:

/**
 * The event listener mappings for the application.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $listen = [
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\EmailSentEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\EmailSent',
    ],
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\ViewEmailEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\EmailViewed',
    ],
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\LinkClickedEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\EmailLinkClicked',
    ],
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\EmailDeliveredEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\EmailDelivered',
    ],
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\ComplaintMessageEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\EmailComplaint',
    ],
    'ZanySoft\MailTracker\Events\PermanentBouncedMessageEvent' => [
        'App\Listeners\BouncedEmail',
    ],
];

Passing data to the event listeners

Often times you may need to link a sent email to another model. The best way to handle this is to add a header to your outgoing email that you can retrieve in your event listener. Here is an example:

/**
 * Send an email and do processing on a model with the email
 */
\Mail::send('email.test', [], function ($message) use($email, $subject, $name, $model) {
    $message->from('from@johndoe.com', 'From Name');
    $message->sender('sender@johndoe.com', 'Sender Name');
    $message->to($email, $name);
    $message->subject($subject);

    // Create a custom header that we can later retrieve
    $message->getHeaders()->addTextHeader("X-MODEL", "Model Name");
    $message->getHeaders()->addTextHeader('X-Model-ID',$model->id);
});

and then in your event listener:

public function handle(EmailSentEvent $event)
{
    $tracker = $event->sent_email;
    $model_id = $event->sent_email->getHeader('X-Model-ID');
    $model_name = $event->sent_email->getHeader('X-Model');

    $model = app("App\\$model_name")->find($model_id);
    // Perform your tracking/linking tasks on $model knowing the SentEmail object
}

Note that the headers you are attaching to the email are actually going out with the message, so do not store any data that you wouldn't want to expose to your email recipients.

Exceptions

The following exceptions may be thrown. You may add them to your ignore list in your exception handler, or handle them as you wish.

ZanySoft\MailTracker\Exceptions\BadUrlLink - Something went wrong with the url link. Either the base 64 encoded url is bad (this only applies to mail sent through version 2.1) or the email hash was not found to apply the link to.

Amazon SES features

If you use Amazon SES, you can add some additional information to your tracking. To set up the SES callbacks, first set up SES notifications under your domain in the SES control panel. Then subscribe to the topic by going to the admin panel of the notification topic and creating a subscription for the URL you copied from the admin page. The system should immediately respond to the subscription request. If you like, you can use multiple subscriptions (i.e. one for delivery, one for bounces). See above for events that are fired on a failed message. For added security, it is recommended to set the topic ARN into the mail-tracker config.

Views

When you run the php artisan vendor:publish command, simple views will add to your resources/views/vendor/emailTrakingViews that you can customize.

Admin Panel

MailTracker comes with a built-in administration area. The default configuration that is published with the package puts it behind the can:see-sent-emails middleware; you may create a gate for this rule or change it to use one of your own. You may also change the default prefix as well as disable the admin routes completely.

The route name is 'mailTracker_Index'. The standard admin panel route is located at /email-manager. You can use route names to include them into your existing admin menu. You can customize your route in the config file. You can see all sent emails, total opens, total urls clicks, show individuals emails and show the urls clicked details.

All views (email tamplates, panel) can be customized in resources/views/vendor/emailTrakingViews.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

Laravel PDF: PDF generator for Laravel

Mubashar Ahmad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:19 +0000

Easily generate PDF documents from HTML right inside of Laravel using this PDF wrapper.

Installation Guide
Configuration
Basic Usage
Headers and Footers
Included Fonts
Custom Fonts
Set Protection
Documentation

Installation Guide

Require this package in your composer.json or install it by running:

composer require zanysoft/laravel-pdf

To start using Laravel, add the Service Provider and the Facade to your config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PdfServiceProvider::class
]

'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'PDF' => ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\Facades\PDF::class
]

Configuration

The defaults configuration settings are set in config/pdf.php. Copy this file to your own config directory to modify the values. You can publish the config using this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PdfServiceProvider"

Basic Usage

To use Laravel PDF add something like this to one of your controllers. You can pass data to a view in /resources/views.

    use ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\Facades\PDF;

    $data = ['foo' => 'bar'];
    $pdf = PDF::make('document.pdf');
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);

    return $pdf->stream();

    use ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PDF;

    $pdf = new PDF();
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);

    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');

If you want to generate from html content:

    $content = "Hello this is first pdf file."
    $pdf->loadHTML($content);

    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');

If you want to generate from files:

    $file = "file.txt"
    $pdf->loadFile($file);

    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');

If you want download pdf file:

    return $pdf->embed('document.pdf');

If you want to save pdf to server:

    return $pdf->save('with-complete-path/document.pdf');

If you want add pdf file as attachment to email:

    return $pdf->embed('document.pdf');

Headers and Footers

If you want to have headers and footers that appear on every page, add them to your <body> tag like this:

<htmlpageheader name="page-header">
    Your Header Content
</htmlpageheader>

<htmlpagefooter name="page-footer">
    Your Footer Content
</htmlpagefooter>

Now you just need to define them with the name attribute in your CSS:

@page {
    header: page-header;
    footer: page-footer;
}

Inside of headers and footers {PAGENO} can be used to display the page number.

Included Fonts

By default you can use all the fonts shipped with mPDF.

Custom Fonts

You can use your own fonts in the generated PDFs. The TTF files have to be located in one folder, e.g. /resources/fonts/. Add this to your configuration file (/config/pdf.php):

    return [
        'custom_font_path' => base_path('/resources/fonts/'), // don't forget the trailing slash!
    ];

And then:

    $fontdata = array(
        'examplefont' => [
            'R' => 'ExampleFont-Regular.ttf',      // regular font
            'B' => 'ExampleFont-Bold.ttf',         // optional: bold font
            'I' => 'ExampleFont-Italic.ttf',       // optional: italic font
            'BI' => 'ExampleFont-Bold-Italic.ttf', // optional: bold-italic font
        ]
        // ...add as many as you want.
    );

    $pdf->addCustomFont($fontdata, true);
    // If your font file is unicode and "OpenType Layout" then set true. Default value is false.

Now you can use the font in CSS:

body {
    font-family: 'examplefont', sans-serif;
}

Set Protection

To set protection, you just call the SetProtection() method and pass an array with permissions, an user password and an owner password.

The passwords are optional.

There are a few permissions: 'copy', 'print', 'modify', 'annot-forms', 'fill-forms', 'extract', 'assemble', 'print-highres'.

use PDF;

function generate_pdf() {
    $data = [
        'foo' => 'bar'
    ];
    $pdf = PDF::make();
    $pdf->SetProtection(['copy', 'print'], 'user_pass', 'owner_pass')
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);

    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');
}

Find more information to SetProtection() here: https://mpdf.github.io/reference/mpdf-functions/setprotection.html

Documentation

Visit this link for more options and settings: https://mpdf.github.io/

Laravel - Eloquent virtual column

Mubashar Ahmad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:12:18 +0000

Save additional data to virtual column

Installation

composer require zanysoft/virtualcolumn

Usage

Use the VirtualColumn trait on your model:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use ZanySoft\VirtualColumn\VirtualColumn;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use VirtualColumn;

    public $guarded = [];
}

For custom virtual column where you want to save additional data. Default column name is data

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use ZanySoft\VirtualColumn\VirtualColumn;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use VirtualColumn;

    public static function getDataColumn(): string
    {
        return 'data'; //name of the column that stores additional data.
    }
}

For saving data to existing database columns, by default all columns from the table are selected, except virtual column.

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use ZanySoft\VirtualColumn\VirtualColumn;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use VirtualColumn;

    public static function getCustomColumns(): array
    {
        return [
            'id',
            'custom1',
            'custom2',
        ];
    }
}

Create a migration:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('my_models', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');

        $table->string('custom1')->nullable();
        $table->string('custom2')->nullable();

        $table->json('data');
    });
}

And store any data on your model:

$myModel = MyModel::create(['custom1' => 'custom 1', 'custom2' => 'custom 2', 'foo' => 'bar']);
$myModel->update(['custom1' => 'custom 1', 'custom2' => 'custom 2', 'foo' => 'bar']);

How to create Responsive FileManager in Laravel?

Mubashar Ahmad — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:05:08 +0000

If you have some corrections, recommendations or anything else to say please let me know.

Read Responsive File Manager Documentation

How to Install ?

Install in your project

composer require zanysoft/laravel-responsive-filemanager

Now there is a new configuration file rfm.php
Install in config/app.php

'providers' => [
     /*
     * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
     */
     ...
     // Responsive File Manager
     ZanySoft\ResponsiveFileManager\FileManagerServiceProvider::class
],

In app/Http/Kernel.php need to use StartSession, can also use and is recommended CSRF Token

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    ...
    'web' => [
        ...
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        // Responsive File Manager supports CSRF Token usage
        \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class
    ]
     ...
];

then do

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ZanySoft\ResponsiveFileManager\FileManagerServiceProvider"

Generate private key for url identification

php artisan rfm:generate

All configs included to work out of the box.
Files are meant to be stored in public folder.

Don't forget to set upload dir in config file

    $upload_dir = 'media/';
    $thumbs_upload_dir = 'thumbs/'; //this will create inside upload directory

Set route prefix in config file


    'route_prefix' => 'filemanager/',
    //or
    'route_prefix' => 'admin/filemanager/',

Set middleware in config file for security purpose

    'middleware' => 'auth', //defaualt is web

Use as StandAlone

Use helpers to write filemanager url

    <a href="@filemanager_get_resource(dialog.php)?field_id=imgField&lang=en_EN&akey=@filemanager_get_key()">Open RFM</a>
    // OR
    <a href="@filemanager_dialog(['field_id'=>'imgField'])">Open RFM</a>    
    // OR
    <a href="@filemanager_dialog()">Open RFM</a>

see USE AS STAND-ALONE FILE MANAGER in Responsible File Manager Doc

Include in TinyMCE or CKEDITOR

Include JS

_ For CKEditor

Replace #MYTEXTAREAJS with your textarea input

    <script src='{{ asset('/vendor/unisharp/laravel-ckeditor/ckeditor.js') }}'></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
            if($("#MYTEXTAREAID").length) {
                CKEDITOR.replace( 'postBody', {
                    filebrowserBrowseUrl : '@filemanager_get_resource(dialog.php)?akey=@filemanager_get_key()&type=2&editor=ckeditor&fldr=',
                    filebrowserUploadUrl : '@filemanager_get_resource(dialog.php)?akey=@filemanager_get_key()&type=2&editor=ckeditor&fldr=',
                    filebrowserImageBrowseUrl : '@filemanager_get_resource(dialog.php)?akey=@filemanager_get_key()&type=1&editor=ckeditor&fldr=',
                    language : '<?php App::getLocale() ?>'
                });
            }
        })
    </script>

For TinyMCE

with tinymce parameters

    $(document).ready(() => {
        $('textarea').first().tinymce({
            script_url : '/tinymce/tinymce.min.js',
            width: 680,height: 300,
            plugins: [
                "advlist autolink link image lists charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak",
                "searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars insertdatetime media nonbreaking",
                "table contextmenu directionality emoticons paste textcolor filemanager code"
        ],
        toolbar1: "undo redo | bold italic underline | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | styleselect",
        toolbar2: "| responsivefilemanager | link unlink anchor | image media | forecolor backcolor  | print preview code ",
        image_advtab: true ,
        filemanager_access_key: '@filemanager_get_key()',
        filemanager_relative_url: true,
        filemanager_sort_by: '',
        filemanager_descending: '',
        filemanager_basefolder: '',
        filemanager_subfolder: '',
        filemanager_crossdomain: '',
        external_filemanager_path: '@external_filemanager_path()',
        filemanager_title:"Responsive Filemanager" ,
        external_plugins: { "filemanager" : "/vendor/responsivefilemanager/plugin.min.js"}
        });
    });

To make private folder use .htaccess with Deny from all

How to Create Laravel PDF file and Download?

Mubashar Ahmad — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:41:00 +0000

Laravel PDF: PDF generator for Laravel 5.x | 6.x | 7.x | 8.x | 9.x

Easily generate PDF documents from HTML right inside of Laravel using this PDF wrapper.

Installation Guide
Configuration
Basic Usage
Headers and Footers
Included Fonts
Custom Fonts
Set Protection
Documentation

Installation Guide

Require this package in your composer.json or install it by running:

composer require zanysoft/laravel-pdf

To start using Laravel, add the Service Provider and the Facade to your config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PdfServiceProvider::class
]

'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'PDF' => ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\Facades\PDF::class
]

Configuration

The defaults configuration settings are set in config/pdf.php. Copy this file to your own config directory to modify the values. You can publish the config using this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PdfServiceProvider"

Basic Usage

To use Laravel PDF add something like this to one of your controllers. You can pass data to a view in /resources/views.

use PDF;

function generate_pdf() {
    $data = [
        'foo' => 'bar'
    ];
    $pdf = PDF::::Make();
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);
    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');
}

use ZanySoft\LaravelPDF\PDF;

function generate_pdf() {
    $data = [
        'foo' => 'bar'
    ];
    $pdf = new PDF();
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);
    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');
}

If you want to generate from html content:

    $content = "Hello this is first pdf file."
    $pdf->loadHTML($content);
    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');

If you want to generate from files:

    $file = "file.txt"
    $pdf->loadFile($file);
    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');

If you want download pdf file:

    return $pdf->embed('document.pdf');

If you want to save pdf to server:

    return $pdf->save('with-complete-path/document.pdf');

If you want add pdf file as attachment to email:

    return $pdf->embed('document.pdf');

Headers and Footers

If you want to have headers and footers that appear on every page, add them to your <body> tag like this:

<htmlpageheader name="page-header">
    Your Header Content
</htmlpageheader>

<htmlpagefooter name="page-footer">
    Your Footer Content
</htmlpagefooter>

Now you just need to define them with the name attribute in your CSS:

@page {
    header: page-header;
    footer: page-footer;
}

Inside of headers and footers {PAGENO} can be used to display the page number.

Included Fonts

By default you can use all the fonts shipped with mPDF.

Custom Fonts

You can use your own fonts in the generated PDFs. The TTF files have to be located in one folder, e.g. /resources/fonts/. Add this to your configuration file (/config/pdf.php):

    return [
        'custom_font_path' => base_path('/resources/fonts/'), // don't forget the trailing slash!
    ];

And then:

    $font_data = array(
        'examplefont' => [
            'R' => 'ExampleFont-Regular.ttf',      // regular font
            'B' => 'ExampleFont-Bold.ttf',         // optional: bold font
            'I' => 'ExampleFont-Italic.ttf',       // optional: italic font
            'BI' => 'ExampleFont-Bold-Italic.ttf', // optional: bold-italic font
        ]
        // ...add as many as you want.
    );

    $pdf->addCustomFont($font_data, true);
    // If your font file is unicode and "OpenType Layout" then set true. Default value is false.

Now you can use the font in CSS:

body {
    font-family: 'examplefont', sans-serif;
}

Set Protection

To set protection, you just call the SetProtection() method and pass an array with permissions, an user password and an owner password.

The passwords are optional.

There are a few permissions: 'copy', 'print', 'modify', 'annot-forms', 'fill-forms', 'extract', 'assemble', 'print-highres'.

use PDF;

function generate_pdf() {
    $data = [
        'foo' => 'bar'
    ];
    $pdf = PDF::Make();
    $pdf->SetProtection(['copy', 'print'], 'user_pass', 'owner_pass')
    $pdf->loadView('pdf.document', $data);

    return $pdf->stream('document.pdf');
}

Find more information to SetProtection() here: https://mpdf.github.io/reference/mpdf-functions/setprotection.html

Documentation

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Mail Tracker

NOTE: If you are using Laravel 9.x you MUST be on version 9.6.0 or higher.

Upgrade from 1.0

Install

Usage

Storing content of mails in filesystem

Overriding models

Skip Tracking for Specific Emails

Skipping Open/Click Tracking for Anti-virus/Spam Filters

Events

Passing data to the event listeners

Exceptions

Amazon SES features

Views

Admin Panel

License

Laravel PDF: PDF generator for Laravel

Contents

Installation Guide

Configuration

Basic Usage

Headers and Footers

Included Fonts

Custom Fonts

Set Protection

Documentation

Laravel - Eloquent virtual column

Installation

Usage

How to create Responsive FileManager in Laravel?

How to Install ?

Install in your project

Use as StandAlone

Include in TinyMCE or CKEDITOR

How to Create Laravel PDF file and Download?

Laravel PDF: PDF generator for Laravel 5.x | 6.x | 7.x | 8.x | 9.x

Contents

Installation Guide

Configuration

Basic Usage

Headers and Footers

Included Fonts

Custom Fonts

Set Protection

Documentation