HTML to PDF Converter for Laravel 4

This is a yet another html to pdf converter for Laravel 4. This package uses wkhtmltopdf as a third-party tool so proc_*() functions has to be enabled in your php configurations and wkhtmltopdf tool should be installed in your machine (You can download it from here).

If you are not a Laravel user, check out here

Installation

Step 1

Add this to your composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "cangelis/l4pdf": "1.1.*"
    }
}

Step 2

Add this line to providers array in your app/config/app.php

'CanGelis\L4pdf\ServiceProvider'

Step 3

Add this line to aliases array in your app/config/app.php

'PDF' => 'CanGelis\L4pdf\PDFFacade'

Step 4

Run this command to publish the configurations of this package

php artisan config:publish cangelis/l4pdf

Step 5

Configure your wkhtmltopdf executable path under app/config/packages/cangelis/l4pdf/config.php

'executable' => '/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf'

Some examples

PDF::loadView('pdf.invoice')->download('invoice.pdf');

PDF::loadURL('http://www.laravel.com')->grayscale()->pageSize('A3')->orientation('Landscape')->stream('laravel.pdf')

Route::get('/', function() {
    return PDF::loadHTML('<strong>Hello World</strong>')->lowquality()->pageSize('A2')->download();
});

Documentation

You can see all the available methods in the full documentation file

Contribution

Feel free to contribute!

yeets/l4pdf