how to save dompdf file to storage and name the file dynamicly in laravel

Question

does anyone know how to save generated pdf file and name it dynamicly using dompdf in laravel? i always encounter this error

failed to open stream: No such file or directory

while trying to generated pdf file and save it to project directory. here its my controller code

$bills = Tagihan::join('pesanan', 'tagihan.id_pesanan', 'pesanan.id_pesanan')
                    ->join('kendaraan', 'pesanan.id_kendaraan', 'kendaraan.id_kendaraan')
                    ->join('kategori_mobil', 'kendaraan.id_kategori_kendaraan', 'kategori_mobil.id_kategori')
                    ->join('users', 'pesanan.id_pengguna', 'users.id')
                    ->where('pesanan.id_pesanan', $save->id_pesanan)
                    ->select('pesanan.*', 'users.*', 'tagihan.*', 'kendaraan.*', 'kategori_mobil.nama_kategori')
                    ->first();
    $today = Carbon::now('GMT+7')->toDateString();
      $pdf = new PDF();
      $pdf = PDF::loadView('admin.tagihan.pdf', compact('bills','today'));
      file_put_contents('public/bills/'.$noOrder.'.pdf', $pdf->output() );
    return redirect()->route('pesananIndex');

i want to save my pdf file with custom string with $noOrder.'pdf', but when i use static name like this

file_put_contents('public/bills/bubla.pdf', $pdf->output());

i had no error, any solution?

Birdlime

why file_put_contents? – Polygamous

Answer 1

You can getOriginalContent from http response into a variable then push it to your file.

 $pdf = PDF::loadView('admin.tagihan.pdf', compact('bills','today'));

 $content = $pdf->download()->getOriginalContent();
 Storage::put('public/bills/bubla.pdf',$content);

 ...

Jackhammer

In the above example is admin.tagihan.pdf the file already rendered by domPdf? – Numerable

@Numerable No, no, he must have spelled it wrong or just picked a weird name. There you must put the path of a Blade view (the html code), so much so that the method is called 'loadView'. – Pinball

Answer 2

 Storage::disk('local')->makeDirectory('/pdf/order');
      $pdf = PDF::loadView('PDF.Order.OrderPDF-dev', ['invoiceDetail'=>$invoiceDetail]);


      $path = 'storage/pdf/order/';
      $pdf->save($path  . $fileName);
      return url($path.$fileName);

In my example first i created folder for PDF. makeDirectory(...) will create folder if exist or not.

$path is location where i want to put my file in Dir. do not use absolute path or public path function here. only define location where you want to create file.

I am creating file in Storage folder. so i added storage/.....

Shackleton

Answer 3

You can use isset function in your blade.php file like for example in top the page u can set Id){ $data=$bills} ?>

Now you can open file as a stream

Diastase

Answer 4

Not sure if anyone still looking for a shorter answer, but this is how I solved it:

Storage::put('pdf-exports/' . Str::random(40) . '.pdf', $pdf->output());

Tindall