Laravel 9 Generate And Download PDF Using DomPDF Example

Hello Artisan,

In this laravel 9 pdf file from view tutorial, I am going to show you how to generate and save pdf in Laravel 9 using dom pdf. So from this tutorial, you will learn to generate pdf from view and the way to download it.

Sometimes in web applications, we need to generate and save pdf. In Laravel, we can do it with many pdf manager packages. In this how to generate pdf in laravel 9 tutorial, I will use dom pdf to generate and save pdf files from blade view in Laravel 9 application.

So let's start Laravel 9 PDF and Laravel 9 generate PDF file using DomPDF example from step by step:

Step 1: Install Laravel 9

This is the first step to download a fresh Laravel 9 application to start it from scratch. So run the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Install DomPDF Package

Now the second step, we will install the DomPDF package using the following composer command, let's run bellow command:

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

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Step 3: Create Controller

In this step, we will create a controller with generate_and_save_pdf() where we write code of generating pdf. so let's create a controller using the bellow command.

app/Http/Controllers/PDFController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use PDF;
  
class PDFController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function generatePDF()
    {
        $users = User::get();
  
        $data = [
            'title' => 'Your title',
            'date' => date('m/d/Y'),
            'users' => $users
        ]; 
            
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('myPDF', $data);
     
        return $pdf->download('test.pdf');
    }
}

Step 4: Create Route

Now, open routes/web.php file and update code on it.

routes/web.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::class, 'generate_and_save_pdf']);

Step 5: Create View File

In the last step, let's create myPDF.blade.php to generate the pdf page and we will download this pdf from this page:

resources/views/myPDF.blade.php

Read also: Print Invoice as PDF in Laravel 8.x using Vue Js

Hope this laravel 9 create pdf from view tutorial will help you.