Laravel 9 Generate Report Save as PDF Example

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Laravel 9 Generate Report Save as PDF Example; today topic we are going to discuss how to create a report PDF in Laravel 9. We are going to install DomPDF package via composer. The package will help to generate pdf report file in laravel 9 which we pass data from controller and design the report base on what we need. The following step below I will give an example to generate payroll monthly report for this month.

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Generate Report Save as PDF

Following guideline will help you to generate any report as PDF

Step 1 - Install Laravel Project

First thing to do is to install Laravel Project in your local machine. Following the article I wrote how to install Laravel via composer and configure database. For this article we are not required to manipulate with database.

Step 2 - Install DomPDF Package

We will install a package name domPDF for generate or create pdf file in Laravel. Following command to download and install in your Laravel project.

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

If your Laravel is greater than 5.5+ you can skip below register package because Laravel 9 is automatically registered and alias the package.

Open file config -> app.php

<?php

'providers' => [
    ....
    Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,
],

'aliases' => [
    ....
    'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,
]

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Step 3 - Create Controller

Now we will generate controller by following command to create file name ReportPDFController

php artisan make:controller ReportPDFController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> ReportPDFController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use PDF;

class ReportPDFController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        // dummy data
        $emps = [];
        for($i=0;$i<15;$i++)
        {
            $emp = [];
            $emp['name'] = "Emp_".$i;
            $emp['gender'] = "M";
            $emp['salary'] = rand(300,1000);
            $emp['withholding_tax'] = rand(1,30);
            $emp['netpay'] = rand(300,1000);
            $emps[]=$emp;
        }
        $data = [
            'title' => 'Welcome to cambotutorial.com',
            'date' => date('M-Y'),
            'data' =>$emps,
        ];

        // export pdf generate with setting A4 and Landscape
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('reportpdf', $data)->setPaper('a4', 'landscape');;
        return $pdf->download('report.pdf');
    }
}

Step 4 - Create View (Blade)

The report will follow how you design on view (blade) file. I will create a list of table with employees salary.

Open file resources -> views -> reportpdf.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>{{ $title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2 style="text-align:center">CamboTutorial.com Monthly Payroll {{ $date }}</h2>
<style>
table.GeneratedTable {
  width: 100%;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border-width: 2px;
  border-color: #000000;
  border-style: solid;
  color: #000000;
}

table.GeneratedTable td, table.GeneratedTable th {
  border-width: 2px;
  border-color: #000000;
  border-style: solid;
  padding: 3px;
}

table.GeneratedTable thead {
  background-color: #ffffff;
}
</style>
<table class="GeneratedTable">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>No</th>
      <th>Employee</th>
      <th>Gender</th>
      <th>Net Salary</th>
      <th>With Holding Tax</th>
      <th>Net Pay</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  @for($i =0; $i< sizeof($data); $i++)
    <tr>
      <td style="text-align:center;">{{$i+1}}</td>
      <td>{{$data[$i]['name']}}</td>
      <td>{{$data[$i]['gender']}}</td>
      <td>{{$data[$i]['salary']}} $</td>
      <td>{{$data[$i]['withholding_tax']}} $</td>
      <td>{{$data[$i]['netpay']}} $</td>
    </tr>
  @endfor
  </tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Step 5 - Add Route

Now we will add route link to navigate download and generate pdf report from controller.

Open file routes -> web.php

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\ReportPDFController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 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('/pdf', [ReportPDFController ::class, 'index'])->name('index');

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Step 6 - Run Laravel Server

Final step is to start development server by following command

php artisan serve

After server run then navigate browser to URL http://localhost:8000/pdf . The URL will start activate and generated PDF in controller.

laravel 9 generate PDF report file

Hope you learn how to generate PDF report in Laravel 9 with this article. Have a nice day!

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