A Simple package for easily generating PDF documents from HTML
This was tested on:
- Ubuntu 14.04 x64
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf
composer require nahidulhasan/html2pdf
If laravel version is less than 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');
}
Html2PDF for Laravel is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license