Report Builder

Generate PDF report like (invoice, receipt ) for laravel

Requirement

• php >= 5.4.0
• Mpdf/Mpdf
• illuminate/support
• illuminate/view

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Install with composer

composer require snono/pdf-builder

Publish the Configration

php artisan vendor:publish 

Example Usage: First you need add import class ReportBuilder

use Snono\PDFBuilder\Builder\Classes\PDFBuilder;

see example sample code blow

$invoice = PDFBuilder::make()
            ->setTemplate('default')
            ->setData($data)  
            ->show();

Configuration

to change default configuration of PDFBuilder update file pdf.conf in config directory of laravel project

Methods

Setting Template

Use setTemplate() to set HTML template blade for laravel the default path in resources/view/pdf-builder

Example

$pdf =  PDFBuilder::make()
    ->setTemplate('pdf')
    ->setData($data)
    ->show()

Setting CSS for template

Use setCssUrls() to set array of url string to css stylesheet files

Example

$pdf =  PDFBuilder::make()
    ->setCssUrls(array('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css'))
    ->setTemplate('pdf')
    ->setData($data)
    ->show()

Setting Directionality

Use setDirectionality() to ser direction of language take string option ('ltr' OR 'rtl')

Example

$pdf =  PDFBuilder::make()
    ->setCssUrls(array('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css'))
    ->setTemplate('pdf')
    ->setData($data)
    ->setDirectionality('rtl')
    ->show();

Setting Header/Footer For the whole document

Use setFooter() and/or SetHeader() to set header/footer before writing the document ,The text sting defines three stings divided by | which will set a header at the left/centre/right margin of the page

Example

$pdf =  PDFBuilder::make()
    ->setCssUrls(array('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css'))
    ->setTemplate('pdf')
    ->setHeader('Document Title')
    ->setFooter('Document Title|{PAGENO}|{DATE j-m-Y}')
    ->setData($data)
    ->setDirectionality('rtl')
    ->show();

Set Header/Footer from HTML string for the whole document

Use setHTMLHeader() and/or setHTMLFooter() to set HTML headers/footers before writing to the document.

Description

void setHTMLHeader ( string $html [, string $side [, boolean $write ]])

void setHTMLFooter ( string $html [, string $side [, boolean $write ]])

Parameters

$header This parameter specifies the content of the page header as a string of valid HTML code.

Default: BLANK

$side Specify whether to set the header for ODD or EVEN pages in a DOUBLE-SIDED document.

Values (case-sensitive)

'O' - set the header for ODD pages

'E' - set the header for EVEN pages

Default: BLANK, which sets 'O'

$write If true it forces the Header to be written immediately to the current page. Use if the header is being set after the new page has been added.

Default: false

Generate Pdf file

Finalise the document and send it to specified destination , you can use one method below

 $pdf->download($filename)

send to the browser and force a file download with the name given by $filename

$pdf->show($filename) 

send the file inline to the browser.

$pdf->save( $filename) 

save to a local file with the name given by $filename (may include a path).

$result = $pdf->toString()

return the document as a string.