davcpas1234/laravelpdfviewer

A Laravel Package for viewing PDF files or documents on Web App

1.0.1 2021-05-31 12:18 UTC

MIT

• Goodness Toluwanimi Kayode
• David Passmore

• laravel
• pdf-viewer
• laravel-viewerJS
• ViewerJS

README

This package is meant to help with viewing portable document file(PDF) on the web seamlessly when developing with Laravel. The package makes use of ViewerJS

Requirement

• PHP 5.6+
• Composer
• Pdf files

Installation

To install into your project, run the command below in your terminal.

composer require davcpas1234/laravelpdfviewer

Once the package is done being installed, register the service provider. Open config/app.php and add the following to the providers key.

Davcpas1234\LaravelPdfViewer\LaravelPdfViewerServiceProvider::class,

Configure

Run this in your terminal:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Davcpas1234\LaravelPdfViewer\LaravelPdfViewerServiceProvider" 

It will publish a folder named laraview to the root folder of your project.

How it Works

Simple!!! After installations and configurations have been carried out successfully, add the code below to your html file

{{ asset('/laraview/#../folder-name/the-pdf-file.pdf') }}

It should look like this:

<iframe src ="{{ asset('/laraview/#../pdf/test.pdf') }}" width="1000px" height="600px"></iframe>

Then, you should have something like this:

Note:

After #../ in {{ asset('/laraview/#../folder-name/the-pdf-file.pdf') }}, what should follow is the folder name of the pdf files in the public folder then, the pdf file name can follow.

Contribute

You can fork this package, contribute and submit a pull request. I will really love it.

License

MIT License (MIT).