Class 'PDF' not found - Laravel 5.4

Question

I am trying to generate a PDF report in my application using the barryvdh/laravel-dompdf package, but I'm receiving an error:

Class 'PDF' not found

I have followed steps from previous answers to similar questions, but they don't seem to help me.

I added the following lines in my composer.json file:

"barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "^0.8.0",
"dompdf/dompdf": "0.8.0 as 0.6.2"

Then, I ran composer update . Afterwards, I included the following lines in my config/app.php :

Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class,
'PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class,

And finally, I ran the following commands in my terminal:

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

Controller

Use PDF;

$pdf = PDF::loadView('app.feestdreportprint',compact('datas','rdata','stdinfo','institute'));
        return $pdf->stream('student-Payments.pdf');

But I am still getting the same error. What can I do to solve this issue? My laravel version is 5.4 .

Answer 1

please check if you put

'PDF' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyPdf::class, 

as alias en app.php

I'm using other library maybe you can use it too.

Composer require:

 "barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "^0.8.1",
 "barryvdh/laravel-snappy": "^0.4.0",

Provider: Barryvdh\Snappy\ServiceProvider::class,        
Alias: 'PDF' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyPdf::class,

In the controller:

use Barryvdh\DomPDF\PDF;

Eg.

$pdf = App::make('snappy.pdf.wrapper');
$view = View::make('view::quote.pdf',['data' => $data]);
$pdf->loadHtml($view)->save($file);

Answer 2

first you have to put this lines in config/app.php .

'providers' => [Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider::class],

and

'aliases' => ['PDF' => Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade::class]

and then you have to use this in your function its totally work for me example

$pdf = PDF::loadView('admin/order_pdf',compact('order_item','order','total_qty','total_ltr','total_weight'));

$pdf->save(storage_path().'_filename.pdf');

return $pdf->download('customers.pdf');