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sanduni jayawardena
sanduni jayawardena

Reputation: 53

how to generate the pdf when the form is submitting in laravel 5.2

I am working on a product management system and there is a module called purchase.

I have wrote the store() method the controller and the model part too.

Now I want to generate the invoice when I click on submit button. I used PDF generator plugin as barryvdh/laravel-dompdf. I'm new to PHP & Laravel and just wants to know instructions to do the PDF generation process.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3804

Answers (3)

Jaymangal Prajapati
Jaymangal Prajapati

Reputation: 11

Step 1 :

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Step 2. Update config/app.php Open config/app.php file. Add the following line to ‘providers’ array:

'providers' => [
....
 Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,
],


'aliases' => [
....
 'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,
]

Step 3. Add routes Now open your web.php file and add following route.

<?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('generate-pdf','PDFController@generatePDF');

Step 4. Add Link In Blade File

<a href="route('generate-pdf')">Generate PDF</a>

Step 5. Create Controller Add your controller below code.

<?PHP
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use PDF;
  
class PDFController extends Controller
{
/**
 * Display a listing of the resource.
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function generatePDF()
{
    $data = [
      'title' => 'First PDF ',
      'heading' => 'Hello Bro',
      'content' => 'Data content'        
        ];
    
    $pdf = PDF::loadView('generate_pdf', $data);

    return $pdf->download('Laravel.pdf');
  }
 }

Step 6. Create Blade File Let’s create generate_pdf.blade.php for layout of pdf file and put following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Generate Pdf</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>{{ $heading}}</h1>
  <div>
     <p>{{$content}}</p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

MrRobot
MrRobot

Reputation: 501

1- Install the DOMPDF according to this Github Link

2- Form page

 <form id="FOO" method="POST" action="/pdf">

     <input type="text" name="object" >
     <button type="submit">Generate</button>

 </form>

3- Route :Route::post('pdf' , 'EventsController@PDFGenerator');

Please notice,here,that you will either need to include a hidden input,with csrf token,or simply exclude this route in the VerifyCSRFToken.php middleware,otherwise it will not let you post(if you haven't worked with Auth yet,don't mind this notice)

4- Controller page now 

public function PDFGenerator (Request $request){
    $html = <<<ENDHTML

   <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
     <head>
      <title>Foo</title>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
    </head>
    <body style="margin: 30px;">

      <center style="text-decoration: underline;">{$request->object}</center>

    </body>
   </html>
ENDHTML;
    $dompdf = App::make('dompdf.wrapper');
    $dompdf->loadHTML($html);
    $dompdf->stream("hello.pdf");
    return $dompdf->stream();

}

This is the Heredoc documentation in case you needed more information about how to use it.

Don't forget to include the library in your controller,waiting for your feedback.

Upvotes: 0

James
James

Reputation: 16359

You would follow the install steps for Laravel 5:

  1. Add this, Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class, to your config/app.php file as a ServiceProvider
  2. Add this, 'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class, to your facades in your config/app.php file

And then in your store method, after you save all the information, you could generate a PDF like so:

$pdf = \PDF::loadView('pdf.invoice', $data);
return $pdf->download('invoice.pdf');

This would load the invoice view stored in resources/views/pdf with the values stored in $data, and then return a downloadable file called invoice.pdf.

This all comes directly from the Using section of the DomPDF docs.

Upvotes: 1

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