Hello Friends,
Before we start today you need to know how to make pdf. so if you dont know how to generate PDF you click here and if you know lets continue. Today we talking about how to marge two or more then two pdf and download. Sometime data will short and that time one pdf its ok but when you want to marge multiple pdf there lots of issue. below i explain step by step how you marge multiple PDF.
Step 1: Install Laravel 9
composer create-project laravel/laravel project-name
Step 2: Install webklex/laravel-pdfmerger Package
first of all we will install webklex/laravel-pdfmerger composer package by following composer command in your laravel application.
composer require webklex/laravel-pdfmerger
After successfully install package, open config/app.php file and add service provider and alias.
config/app.php
'providers' => [
....
Webklex\PDFMerger\Providers\PDFMergerServiceProvider::class
],
'aliases' => [
....
'PDFMerger' => Webklex\PDFMerger\Facades\PDFMergerFacade::class,
]
Step 3: Create Routes
In this is step we need to create routes for display form. so open your “routes/web.php” file and add following route.
routes/web.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Webklex\PDFMerger\Facades\PDFMergerFacade as PDFMerger;
class PDFController extends Controller
{
/**
* Show the application dashboard.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function index()
{
return view('mergePDF');
}
/**
* Show the application dashboard.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function store(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'filenames' => 'required',
'filenames.*' => 'mimes:pdf'
]);
if($request->hasFile('filenames')){
$pdf = PDFMerger::init();
foreach ($request->file('filenames') as $key => $value) {
$pdf->addPDF($value->getPathName(), 'all');
}
$fileName = time().'.pdf';
$pdf->merge();
$pdf->save(public_path($fileName));
}
return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
}
}
Step 4: Create Controller
Here,we require to create new controller PDFController that will manage get and post method of route. So let’s put bellow code.
app/Http/Controllers/PDFController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Webklex\PDFMerger\Facades\PDFMergerFacade as PDFMerger;
class PDFController extends Controller
{
/**
* Show the application dashboard.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function index()
{
return view('mergePDF');
}
/**
* Show the application dashboard.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function store(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'filenames' => 'required',
'filenames.*' => 'mimes:pdf'
]);
if($request->hasFile('filenames')){
$pdf = PDFMerger::init();
foreach ($request->file('filenames') as $key => $value) {
$pdf->addPDF($value->getPathName(), 'all');
}
$fileName = time().'.pdf';
$pdf->merge();
$pdf->save(public_path($fileName));
}
return response()->download(public_path($fileName));
}
}
Step 5: Create Blade File
In Last step, let’s create mergePDF.blade.php(resources/views/mergePDF.blade.php) for layout of pdf file and put following code:
resources/views/mergePDF.blade.php
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Laravel 9 Merge Multiple PDF Files Example - Web-Tuts.com</title>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/5.0.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
@if (count($errors) > 0)
<div class="alert alert-danger">
<strong>Sorry!</strong> There were more problems with your HTML input.<br><br>
<ul>
@foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
@endforeach
</ul>
</div>
@endif
<h3 class="well">Laravel Merge Multiple PDF Files Example - Web-Tuts.com</h3>
<form method="post" action="{{ route('merge.pdf.post') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{{csrf_field()}}
<input type="file" name="filenames[]" class="myfrm form-control" multiple="">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" style="margin-top:10px">Submit</button>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Run Laravel App:
php artisan serve
Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:
http://localhost:8000/merge-pdf