Laravel 9 Generate Pdf From Html View file And Download

Apr 29, 2022 . Admin

Hello Friends,

Now let's see an example of how to generate a pdf from html view file in laravel 9 example. This is a short guide on laravel 9 pdf from html view file. Here you will learn to generate pdf from html view file laravel 9. We will use generate pdf from html view file in laravel 9. Let's get started with generate a pdf from html view file in laravel 9.

Here I will give you a few step of instruction to generate a pdf from html view file in laravel 9.

Step 1: Download Laravel

Let us begin the tutorial by installing a new laravel application. if you have already created the project, then skip following step.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app
Step 2: Install Package

In this step, we will do Installation. We will firstly open our terminal or command prompt and run the following command:

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf --ignore-platform-reqs

Now we will open our file named config/app.php. Then we will add aliased and service provider.

config/app.php

'providers' => [  
    ....  
    Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,  
],  
'aliases' => [  
    ....  
    'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,  
],  
Step 3: Create Route

In this step, we will Add Route, We will create a route so that we can generate a view.

routes/web.php

<?php

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

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 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('itemPdfView',array('as'=>'itemPdfView','uses'=>'ItemController@itemPdfView')); 
Step 4: Create Controller

In this step, we will Create Controller. For this, we are going to use the app/Http/Controllers/ItemController.php path to add a new controller as ItemController.

php artisan make:controller ItemController
app/Http/Controllers/ItemController.php
<?php

    namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    use App\Http\Requests;  
    use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    use DB;  
    use PDF;  

    class ItemController extends Controller
    {
        /**
        * Write code on Method
        *
        * @return response()
        */  
        public function itemPdfView(Request $request)  
        {  
            $items = DB::table("items")->get();  
            view()->share('items',$items);  
      
            if($request->has('download')){  
                $pdf = PDF::loadView('itemPdfView');  
                return $pdf->download('itemPdfView.pdf');  
            }      
            return view('itemPdfView');  
        }  
    }
Step 5: Create Blade File

In this step, we will create a View file. We will create a view and pdf file by using the view file named as "pdfview.blade.php".

resources/view/itemPdfView.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Generate PDF from html view file and download using dompdf in Laravel 9</title>  
</head>
<style type="text/css"> 
    table{
        width: 100%;
        border-collapse: collapse;
    } 
    table td, table th{  
        border:1px solid black;
    } 
    table tr, table td{
        padding: 5px;
    } 
</style>
<body>
    <div class="container">  
    <br/>  
    <a href="{{ route('itemPdfView',['download'=>'pdf']) }}">Download PDF</a>     
    <table>  
        <tr>  
            <th>No</th>  
            <th>Name</th>  
            <th>Price</th>  
        </tr>  
        @foreach ($items as $key => $item)  
            <tr>  
                <td>{{ ++$key }}</td>  
                <td>{{ $item->name }}</td>  
                <td>{{ $item->price }}</td>  
            </tr>  
        @endforeach  
    </table>  
</div>  
</body>
</html>

Using the above code we are able to convert the item file into a pdf file and also able to download that file. For this, we will open our terminal or command prompt and run the following command:

Run Laravel App:

All steps have been done, now you have to type the given command and hit enter to run the laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, you have to open web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/itemPdfView 
Output:

It will help you....

#Laravel 9