Generating PDF with Laravel

Question

I’m trying to implement this pdf lib for my Laravel project: https://tcpdf.org/. Since I’m having problems in the implementation, because its documentation is not very clear with the method I need to use to create a PDF.

Answer 1

To implement, as you are using a framework, I would suggest installing through Composer.

First, add to composer.json the dependency of TCPDF:

"require": {
    // Aqui terá todas as dependencias do Laravel, coloque em baixo o tcpdf.
    "tecnickcom/tcpdf": "^6.2.13"
}

Then execute the command composer install if there is the file composer.lock, otherwise, use composer update.

To use TCPDF, it would look something like this:

<?php
// Acredito que não será necessário a etapa abaixo, mas faça o teste com ou sem.
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$pdf = new TCPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->Write(1, 'Hello world');

$pdf->Output('hello_world.pdf');

?>

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Examples of how to use the library here.

Answer 2

I recommend using Dompdf, which is already widely accepted and used in the Laravel community.

In addition, it is easy to install and has great documentation.

Worth checking out: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf