For Laravel 4.x, check the 0.4 branch!
Require this package in your composer.json and update composer. This will download the package and the dompdf + fontlib libraries also.
composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php
Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,
You can optionally use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your facades:
'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,
After updating composer add the following lines to register provider in bootstrap/app.php
$app->register(\Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class);
To change the configuration, copy the config file to your config folder and enable it in bootstrap/app.php:
$app->configure('dompdf');
You can create a new DOMPDF instance and load a HTML string, file or view name. You can save it to a file, or stream (show in browser) or download.
$pdf = App::make('dompdf.wrapper');
$pdf->loadHTML('<h1>Test</h1>');
return $pdf->stream();
Or use the facade:
$pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf.invoice', $data);
return $pdf->download('invoice.pdf');
You can chain the methods:
return PDF::loadFile(public_path().'/myfile.html')->save('/path-to/my_stored_file.pdf')->stream('download.pdf');
You can change the orientation and paper size, and hide or show errors (by default, errors are shown when debug is on)
PDF::loadHTML($html)->setPaper('a4', 'landscape')->setWarnings(false)->save('myfile.pdf')
If you need the output as a string, you can get the rendered PDF with the output() function, so you can save/output it yourself.
Use php artisan vendor:publish to create a config file located at config/dompdf.php which will allow you to define local configurations to change some settings (default paper etc).
You can also use your ConfigProvider to set certain keys.
In your templates, set the UTF-8 Metatag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
You can use the CSS page-break-before/page-break-after properties to create a new page.
<style>
.page-break {
page-break-after: always;
}
</style>
<h1>Page 1</h1>
<div class="page-break"></div>
<h1>Page 2</h1>
This DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license