This example is focused on laravel 8 pdf file from view. you can understand a concept of laravel 8 generate pdf file. i explained simply about laravel 8 pdf dompdf. This article will give you simple example of how to generate pdf in laravel 8.

Here, Creating a basic example of laravel 8 create pdf from view.

PDF is one of basic requirement when you are working with erp level project or e commerce website. we may need to create pdf file for report or invoice etc. So, here i will give you very simple example for create pdf file with laravel.

You need to just follow bellow step to create pdf file and also can download. So let’s do bellow steps.

Step 1: Install Laravel 8

I am going to explain step by step from scratch so, we need to get fresh Laravel 8 application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2: Install dompdf Package

first of all we will install barryvdh/laravel-dompdf composer package by following composer command in your laravel 8 application.

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

After successfully install package, open config/app.php file and add service provider and alias.

config/app.php

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

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

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