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.

#Learn More

The code examples are directly from the project’s readme; be sure to check it out for more examples of available methods and test assertions.

To get started, barryvdh/laravel-snappy has full installation instructions and source code. Also, be sure to check out KnpLabs/snappy for further details on using Snappy.