Snappy Image Wrapper for Laravel

 

Snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnails, snapshots, and PDF generation from a URL or HTML page. Barry vd. Heuvel is the author of a Laravel Snappy (which has been around since Laravel 5), making it even easier to integrate with Laravel:

// Generate a PDF From a view

$pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf.invoice', $data);

$pdf->download('invoice.pdf');

// Generate a PDF from a URL

PDF::loadFile('https://www.github.com')

     ->inline('github.pdf');

// Change the orientation and paper size

PDF::loadHtml($html)

     ->setPaper('a4')

     ->setOrientation('landscape')

     ->setOption('margin-bottom', 0)

     ->save('myfile.pdf');

Along with some nifty convenience methods, Snappy for Laravel has testing features to help you assert things that Snappy generates:

PDF::fake();

// Perform order shipping...

PDF::assertViewIs('view-pdf-order-shipping');

PDF::assertSee('Name');

Snappy requires the wkhtmltopdf (available on Windows, Mac, and Linux), which is a command-line tool to render HTML into PDF and various image formats. Installation instructions are available in the readme so you can ensure wkhtmltopdf is installed and the path configured properly.