Require this package in your composer.json and update composer. This will download the package and the dompdf + fontlib libraries also.
"barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "0.4.*"
After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in app/config/app.php
'Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider',
You can optionally use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your facades:
'PDF' => 'Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade',
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');
$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')->setOrientation('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.
You can publish the config-file to change some settings (default paper etc).
php artisan config:publish barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
In your templates, set the UTF-8 Metatag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
This DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel4 is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license