How to Add Barcode in PDF using DomPDF Laravel?

By Hardik Savani April 16, 2024 Category : Laravel

Hi Friends,

If you need to see an example of laravel dompdf barcode. let’s discuss about barryvdh dompdf pdf barcode. I’m going to show you about laravel pdf barcode. we will help you to give an example of how to add barcode in pdf file laravel. So, let us see in detail an example.

In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to incorporate a barcode into a PDF file. We will employ the picqer/php-barcode-generator composer package to generate the barcode and the barryvdh/laravel-dompdf composer package to create the PDF file. So, let's proceed with these straightforward steps:

Now, let's see an example step by step, you can use this example with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 versions:

Step 1: Install Laravel

This step is not required; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Install DomPDF Package

next, we will install the DomPDF and Barcode package using the following composer command, let's run the below command:

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

composer require picqer/php-barcode-generator

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Step 3: Create Controller

In this step, we will create PDFController with generatePDF() where we write the code of generate pdf. so let's create controller using bellow command.

php artisan make:controller PDFController

Now, update the code on the controller file.

app/Http/Controllers/PDFController.php

<?php
    
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use PDF;
use Picqer\Barcode\BarcodeGeneratorPNG;
    
class PDFController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function generatePDF()
    {
        $generator = new BarcodeGeneratorPNG();
        $barcode = base64_encode($generator->getBarcode('081231723897', $generator::TYPE_CODE_128));
        $data = [
            'title' => 'Welcome to ItSolutionStuff.com',
            'barcode' => $barcode
        ]; 
              
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('myPDF', $data);
  
        return $pdf->download('itsolutionstuff.pdf');
    }
}

Step 4: Add Route

Furthermore, open routes/web.php file and update code on it.

routes/web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\PDFController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('generate-pdf', [PDFController::class, 'generatePDF']);

Step 5: Create View File

In Last step, let's create myPDF.blade.php for layout of pdf file and put following code:

resources/views/myPDF.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel 10 Generate PDF Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
</head>
<body>
  
<div>
    <h1>Laravel PDF with Barcode Example</h1>
      
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
    tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
    quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
    consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
    cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
    proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
  
    <img src="data:image/png;base64,{{ $barcode }}">
    
</div>
    
</body>
</html>

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

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http://localhost:8000/generate-pdf

you will download the file below:

Now we are ready to run this example and check it...

I hope it can help you...

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