Laravel EXCEL and PDF export - laravel

Question

I am new in Laravel and I am using Laravel 4.2
I like to export some data in PDF and excel.
Is there any way in Laravel?

Answer 1

Use FPDF to do what u need. You must create a pdf file from scratch and fill it in the way u want.
<?php
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage(); // add page to PDF
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16); // Choose a font and size
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!'); // write anything to any line you want
$pdf->Output("your_name.pdf"); // Export the file and send in to browser
?>
And for Excel a simple way is to add PHPExcel to laravel. Add this line to your composer.json:
"require": {
"phpexcel/phpexcel": "dev-master"
}
then run a composer update. So use it like this:
$ea = new PHPExcel();
$ea->getProperties()
->setCreator('somebody')
->setTitle('PHPExcel Demo')
->setLastModifiedBy('soembody')
->setDescription('A demo to show how to use PHPExcel to manipulate an Excel file')
->setSubject('PHP Excel manipulation')
->setKeywords('excel php office phpexcel')
->setCategory('programming')
;
$ews = $ea->getSheet(0);
$ews->setTitle('Data');
$ews->setCellValue('a1', 'ID'); // Sets cell 'a1' to value 'ID
$ews->setCellValue('b1', 'Season');

Answer 2

Use maatwebsite to Create and import Excel, CSV and PDF files
Add this lines to your composer.json:
"require": {
"maatwebsite/excel": "~2.1.0"
}
After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php
Maatwebsite\Excel\ExcelServiceProvider::class,
You can use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your aliasses:
'Excel' => Maatwebsite\Excel\Facades\Excel::class,
To publish the config settings in Laravel 5 use:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Maatwebsite\Excel\ExcelServiceProvider"
simple use of this package:
$users = User::select('id','name' ,'username')->get();
$Info = array();
array_push($Info, ['id','name' ,'username']);
foreach ($users as $user) {
array_push($Info, $user->toArray());
}
Excel::create('Users', function($excel) use ($Info) {
$excel->setTitle('Users');
$excel->setCreator('milad')->setCompany('Test');
$excel->setDescription('users file');
$excel->sheet('sheet1', function($sheet) use ($Info) {
$sheet->setRightToLeft(true);
$sheet->fromArray($Info, null, 'A1', false, false);
});
})->download('xls'); // or download('PDF')