Generate Quote PDF

Now that we have our Quotes being created, we should have the ability to generate a PDF and send it to our customer:

In this lesson, we will do the following:

• Create a view page for our Quote - this will be a page to preview PDF
• Install and modify a PDF generation package
• Create a controller to generate the PDF (both preview and download)

Creating a Simple View Page for Quote

We can quickly create a new View page by running the following command:

php artisan make:filament-page ViewQuote --resource=QuoteResource --type=ViewRecord

This will generate a file, but we still need to register it in our Resource:

app/Filament/Resources/QuoteResource.php

// ...
 
public static function table(Table $table): Table
    {
        return $table
            // ...
            ->bulkActions([
                Tables\Actions\BulkActionGroup::make([
                    Tables\Actions\DeleteBulkAction::make(),
                ]),
            ]);
            ])
            ->recordUrl(function ($record) {
                return Pages\ViewQuote::getUrl([$record]);
            });
    }
 
public static function getPages(): array
{
    return [
        'index' => Pages\ListQuotes::route('/'),
        'create' => Pages\CreateQuote::route('/create'),
        'view' => Pages\ViewQuote::route('/{record}'),
        'edit' => Pages\EditQuote::route('/{record}/edit'),
    ];
}

Now we can click on the row, and we should see our new page:

That's it for now. Next, we will generate the PDF and display it on the View page.

Installing PDF Package

Next, we will install a package Laravel Invoices to deal with the invoice generation itself:

Note: This can be replaced with any other package or just pure DomPDF

composer require laraveldaily/laravel-invoices:^3.1

Then, we need to publish the package files:

php artisan invoices:install

This will create...