lara-pdf-merger

Drop-in replacement for the original package from deltaaskii/lara-pdf-merger that also works under PHP 7.4, _(*1)

Original written by http://pdfmerger.codeplex.com/team/view, _(*2)

This Package was tested on Laravel 6.0, _(*3)

Improvements

Code source refactoring
Enabling the Facade use
Adding duplex merge feature
Seperate save operation from the merge

Installation

Require this package in your composer.json by adding those lines

composer require daltcore/lara-pdf-merger

Run this commend in your terminal

composer update

Laravel <5.5:

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php, _(*4)

    LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\PdfMergerServiceProvider::class,

You can optionally use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your facades:, _(*5)

    'PdfMerger' => LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger::class,

Usage


use LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger;

//...

$pdfMerger = PDFMerger::init(); //Initialize the merger

$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/three.pdf', 'all');

//You can optionally specify a different orientation for each PDF
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4', 'L');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2', 'P');

$pdfMerger->merge(); //For a normal merge (No blank page added)

// OR..
$pdfMerger->duplexMerge(); //Merges your provided PDFs and adds blank pages between documents as needed to allow duplex printing

// optional parameter can be passed to the merge functions for orientation (P for protrait, L for Landscape). 
// This will be used for every PDF that doesn't have an orientation specified

$pdfMerger->save("file_path.pdf");

// OR...
$pdfMerger->save("file_name.pdf", "download");
// REPLACE 'download' WITH 'browser', 'download', 'string', or 'file' for output options