Laravel 7 PDF Tutorial: Generate PDF in Laravel with DOMPDF

In this tutorial, I will explain how to create laravel dompdf report. so lets start

First you need to install this composer, to open cmd from root folder then you need to install the composer.

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Configure DomPDF Package in Laravel

Open config/app.php file and incorporate DomPDF service provider in providers array along with DomPDF facade to the aliases array.

'providers' => [

  Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,

],

'aliases' => [

  'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,

]

Routing Setup

Route::get('/invoice/{id}/pdf', 'invoice@createPDF')->name('createPDF');

into the controller page

use PDF;

function createPDF($id)

{

$ids = Crypt::decrypt($id);

$qry = 'SELECT * FROM journal WHERE j_id="'.$ids.'"' ;

$ppl = DB::select($qry);

$pdf = PDF::loadView('invoice/invoice_pdf', ['ppl' => $ppl]);

  // If you want to store the generated pdf to the server then you can use the store function

   // $pdf->save(storage_path().'_filename.pdf');

    // Finally, you can download the file using download function

    return $pdf->download('customers.pdf');

 

}