How to get Blade template view as a raw HTML string?
PhpLaravelLaravel BladePhp Problem Overview
I need the HTML of my Blade template as a string.
I'm going to use that HTML string to generate a PDF from it.
At the moment I have Blade streaming as a response back to browsers.
return view('users.edit', compact('user'));
How can I get the raw HTML string from the blade template?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
You can call render() on the view.
$html = view('users.edit', compact('user'))->render();
See the View source code for more information.
Solution 2 - Php
This is the perfect solution of download/converting a blade file to HTML.
$view = view('welcome')->render();
header("Content-type: text/html");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=view.html");
return $view;
Solution 3 - Php
<!-- View stored in resources/views/greeting.blade.php -->
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello, {{ $name }}</h1>
</body>
</html>
<!-- In your php controller -->
return view('greeting', ['name' => 'James']);
edited
<!-- In your PHP controller You can add html variable , and then use it for example to print PDF -->
$html=view('greeting', ['name' => 'James']);
$pdf = \App::make('snappy.pdf.wrapper');
$output = $pdf->loadHTML($html)->output();
$headers = [
'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf',
'Content-Disposition' => 'inline; filename="' . $filename . '"',
];
\Storage::put("pdfs/$filename", $output);
return response()->download(storage_path("app\\pdfs\\$filename"), $filename . '.pdf', $headers);
<!-- or return \Response::make($output, 200, $headers); -->
to use snappy you need to follow the instructions : <https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-snappy>
1. Download wkhtmltopdf from here https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
2. Package Installation: composer require barryvdh/laravel-snappy
3. In (app.php) providers array add Barryvdh\Snappy\ServiceProvider::class,
4. In (app.php) aliases array add 'PDF' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyPdf::class, 'SnappyImage' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyImage::class,
5. Run php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\Snappy\ServiceProvider"
6. In (snappy.php) edit the binary path based on your installation path for wkhtmltopdf For me it is the following :
return array(
'pdf' => array(
'enabled' => true,
// base_path('vendor\wemersonjanuario\wkhtmltopdf-windows\bin\64bit\wkhtmltopdf'),
'binary' =>'"C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf"',
'timeout' => false,
'options' => array(),
'env' => array(),
),
'image' => array(
'enabled' => true,
'binary' =>'"C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf"',
'timeout' => false,
'options' => array(),
'env' => array(),
),
);