A Simple package for easily generating PDF documents from HTML.This package is specially for laravel but you can use this without laravel.
This was tested on:
- Ubuntu 14.04 x64
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdfRUN apt-get update && apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf
composer require nahidulhasan/html2pdf
If laravel version < 5.5, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php
NahidulHasan\Html2pdf\Html2pdfServiceProvider::class,
You can optionally use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your facades:
'Pdf' => NahidulHasan\Html2pdf\Facades\Pdf::class,
To create PDF add something like this to one of your controllers.
use NahidulHasan\Html2pdf\Facades\Pdf;
$document = Pdf::generatePdf('<h1>Test</h1>');You can also create PDF from directly calling laravel blade file. Suppose you have a mail template named greeting in view/mails folder and want to send parameter then you have to call generatePdf method as described in below
<!-- mail template stored in resources/views/mails/greeting.blade.php -->
$document = Pdf::generatePdf(view('mails.greeting', ['name' => 'James', 'testVar' => 'demo']));
Now If you want to send mail to your client attaching pdf then you can follow this code
/**
* Build the message.
*
* @return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->from('username@gmail.com')
->view('mails.demo')
->attachData($document, 'Invoice.pdf');
}
Save the PDF to a file in a specific folder, and then download it
use NahidulHasan\Html2pdf\Pdf;
$obj = new Pdf();
$html = '<html><body>'
. '<p>Put your html here, or generate it with your favourite '
. 'templating system.</p>'
. '</body></html>';
$invoice = $obj->generatePdf($html);
define('INVOICE_DIR', public_path('uploads/invoices'));
if (!is_dir(INVOICE_DIR)) {
mkdir(INVOICE_DIR, 0755, true);
}
$outputName = str_random(10);
$pdfPath = INVOICE_DIR.'/'.$outputName.'.pdf';
File::put($pdfPath, $invoice);
$headers = [
'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf',
'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="'.'filename.pdf'.'"',
];
return response()->download($pdfPath, 'filename.pdf', $headers);
It is also possible to use the following methods :
pdf::stream('<h1>Test</h1>') Open the PDF file in browser
You can use this library without using Laravel.
Example:
use NahidulHasan\Html2pdf\Pdf;
$obj = new Pdf();
$document = $obj->generatePdf('<h1>Test</h1>');
Html2PDF for Laravel is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license