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How to Generate PDF File using DomPDF in Laravel 11?

Hi, Dev

In this guide, I'll walk you through the process of generating a PDF file in Laravel 11 using DomPDF.

To accomplish this, we'll leverage the DomPDF Composer package. First, we'll install the package and then proceed to generate a PDF file containing dummy user data and text. Follow the steps outlined below to create your PDF file:

Step for Laravel 11 Create PDF File using DomPDF Example


Step 1: Install Laravel 11

Step 2: Install DomPDF Package

Step 3: Create Controller

Step 4: Add Route

Step 5: Create View File

Run Laravel App

Step 1: Install Laravel 11

This step is not required; however, if you have not created the Laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Install DomPDF Package

Next, we will install the DomPDF package using the following Composer command. Let's run the command below:

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Step 3: Create Controller

In this step, we will create a PDFController with a method called generatePDF() where we will write the code to generate a PDF. So, let's create the controller using the command below.

php artisan make:controller PDFController

In the `PDFController`, we also get users table data and display it into a PDF file. So, you can add some dummy data to the users table by using the following Tinker command:

php artisan tinker

 
User::factory()->count(10)->create()

Now, update the code in the controller file.

app/Http/Controllers/PDFController.php 

<?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' => 'Welcome to NiceSnippets.com',
            'date' => date('m/d/Y'),
            'users' => $users
        ]; 

              
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('myPDF', $data);

       
        return $pdf->download('NiceSnippets.pdf');
    }
}

Step 4: Add Route

Furthermore, open `routes/web.php` file and add a GET route.

routes/web.php 

<?php

  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

  
use App\Http\Controllers\PDFController;

    
Route::get('generate-pdf', [PDFController::class, 'generatePDF']);

Step 5: Create View File

In the last step, let's create `myPDF.blade.php` (`resources/views/myPDF.blade.php`) for the layout of the PDF file and put the following code:

resources/views/myPDF.blade.php 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel 11 Generate PDF Example - NiceSnippets.com</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" >
</head>
<body>
    <h1>{{ $title }}</h1>
    <p>{{ $date }}</p>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
    tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>

  
    <table class="table table-bordered">
        <tr>
            <th>ID</th>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Email</th>
        </tr>
        @foreach($users as $user)
        <tr>
            <td>{{ $user->id }}</td>
            <td>{{ $user->name }}</td>
            <td>{{ $user->email }}</td>
        </tr>
        @endforeach
    </table>

  
</body>
</html>

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/generate-pdf

you will download the file as like below:

Now we are ready to run this example and check it...

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