Hello Friends,

In this example, I will show you laravel add text to a pdf file example. if you want to see an example of how to edit a pdf file in laravel then you are in the right place. I would like to show you the laravel add image on an existing pdf file. I’m going to show you about laravel fpdf fpdi example. So, let's follow a few steps to create an instance of laravel setasign/fpdf.

You can use this example with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, and laravel 9 versions.

Sometimes, we need to edit an existing pdf file in the laravel application. You can not edit existing pdf with dompdf. However, we can add text and images using the setasign/fpdf and setasign/fpdi composer packages.

In this example, I will take one sample.pdf file and add text as mywebtuts.com with an image on that pdf file. Then we will save that file as a sample_output.pdf file. so let's see the below step to do this example.

first of all we need to get a fresh Laravel version application using the bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run the bellow command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

here, we will install the fpdf and fpdi packages for editing the pdf file. so, let's run the bellow commands:

composer require setasign/fpdf
composer require setasign/fpdi

In this step we need to create one route for editing the pdf file. let's add the below route on the web.php file.

<?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('fill-data-pdf', [PDFController::class,'index']);

in this step, we need to create PDFController with index() and fillPDFFile() method.

php artisan make:controller PDFController

Then put your sample.pdf file in the public folder.

Add the below code on the controller file.

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use setasign\Fpdi\Fpdi;
  
class PDFController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $filePath = public_path("sample.pdf");
        $outputFilePath = public_path("sample_output.pdf");
        $this->fillPDFFile($filePath, $outputFilePath);
          
        return response()->file($outputFilePath);
    }
  
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function fillPDFFile($file, $outputFilePath)
    {
        $fpdi = new FPDI;
          
        $count = $fpdi->setSourceFile($file);
  
        for ($i=1; $i<=$count; $i++) {
  
            $template = $fpdi->importPage($i);
            $size = $fpdi->getTemplateSize($template);
            $fpdi->AddPage($size['orientation'], array($size['width'], $size['height']));
            $fpdi->useTemplate($template);
              
            $fpdi->SetFont("helvetica", "", 15);
            $fpdi->SetTextColor(1, 106, 254);
  
            $left = 10;
            $top = 10;
            $text = "Mywebtuts.com";
            $fpdi->Text($left,$top,$text);
  
            $fpdi->Image("file:///var/www/example-app/public/logomy-web-tuts-new.png", 40, 90);
        }
  
        return $fpdi->Output($outputFilePath, 'F');
    }
}

Start the development server. Use the PHP artisan serve command and start your server:

php artisan serve

Now you are ready to run our example so run the below command to quick run.

http://localhost:8000/fill-data-pdf

I hope it can help you...