Generating PDF files is essential for invoices, reports, receipts, and certificates in Laravel applications. While popular options like barryvdh/laravel-dompdf or spatie/laravel-pdf (using Chromium for modern CSS) dominate in 2025–2026, TCPDF remains a solid, pure-PHP choice with no external dependencies. It excels at precise control over layout and supports HTML + basic CSS. In this tutorial, we'll build a complete invoice PDF generator in Laravel 11 using the elibyy/tcpdf-laravel package. By the end, you'll generate downloadable PDFs from Blade views.
PDF generation is essential for invoices, receipts, reports, and printable documents in web apps. CodeIgniter 4 doesn't include a native PDF library, so TCPDF (a robust, open-source PHP class) is a popular choice. This tutorial shows you how to integrate TCPDF in CodeIgniter 4 to generate dynamic PDFs from database data. We'll build a simple invoice system.
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