Header or footer not showing up. about laravel-fpdf

[codedge]

As I supposed, not a problem with the package, but with your code.
Here is some help to fix!

Insert into routes/web.php:

Route::get('/fpdf', 'Controller@createPdf');

Create a model in app/Models/Pdf.php that extends the Pdf model from the package and override the Header and Footer method and do not do this in your controller file:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Codedge\Fpdf\Fpdf\Fpdf;

class Pdf extends Fpdf
{
    public function Header()
    {
        $this->Image(storage_path() . '/logo.jpg',10,6,30);
        $this->SetFont('Arial','B',15);
        $this->Cell(80);
        $this->Cell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C');
        $this->Ln(20);
    }

    public function Footer()
    {
        $this->SetY(-15);
        $this->SetFont('Arial','I',8);
        $this->Cell(0,10,'Page '.$this->PageNo().'/{nb}',0,0,'C');
    }
}

In your controller, i. e. app/Http/Controllers/Controller.php you need to inject the Pdf model in the constructor like this:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesJobs;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesRequests;

class Controller extends BaseController
{
    protected $pdf;

    public function __construct(\App\Models\Pdf $pdf)
    {
        $this->pdf = $pdf;
    }

    public function createPdf()
    {
        $this->pdf->AliasNbPages();
        $this->pdf->AddPage();
        $this->pdf->SetFont('Times','',12);

        for($i=1;$i<=40;$i++)
            $this->pdf->Cell(0,10,'Printing line number '.$i,0,1);

        $this->pdf->Output();
    }
}

The result is (with a different logo of course):

[codedge]

I'll have a look later this evening.

Just to clarify:

• Your PDF class and your controller are in one single file?
• Why are you having an exit statement at the end of your method method?
• Why don't you use either Facades or proper dependency injection?

I think is sth. mixed up in your code. Nobody else is having this problem.

[jhunexjun]

Hi,

I just want to answer your questions above.

• Your PDF class and your controller are in one single file?
  Yes. Where it should be placed? I don't see it in some examples. Am I missing?

• Why are you having an exit statement at the end of your method method?
  If there's no exit, it doesn't show as pdf in Chrome but full of unkown characters like

  %PDF-1.3 3 0 obj <> endobj 4 0 obj <> stream x�}.

  I noticed the content-type is not application/pdf but text/html; charset=UTF-8. The PDF shows though in Internet Explorer despite of the content-type.

• Why don't you use either Facades or proper dependency injection?
  I don't see it in docs.

Thanks,