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guys iam working with a project. it was running in live. everything works fine.
now i need charts and graphs as report, so i installed barryvdh/laravel-snappy package in my local.
what i did is for Wkhtmltopdf Installation
i visited this link: https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html -- 64 bit because my system 64 bit and installed it normally. it is installed in my c/program files.
next i gave composer require barryvdh/laravel-snappy
next i added it in config/app.php
Barryvdh\Snappy\ServiceProvider::class,
'PDF' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyPdf::class,
'SnappyImage' => Barryvdh\Snappy\Facades\SnappyImage::class,
next i gave this php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\Snappy\ServiceProvider"
Next what i did is in config/snappy.php i changed like below
'pdf' => [
'enabled' => true,
'binary' => '"C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"',
'timeout' => false,
'options' => [],
'env' => [],
],
as it was installed in my local c/ program files
now i used the package and it worked fine in local.
now how i can take this package to cpanel server?
what i did is
copied the vendor folder, config folder, bootstrap folder, composer file, these to server.
is this enough?? how can i change the binary path in config/snappy.php in server?? what lines i should give there??
or else nothing to give, everything is fine??
kindly some one help please
In live iam getting this error
The exit status code '127' says something went wrong: stderr: "sh: C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe: command not found " stdout: "" command: "C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe" --lowquality '/tmp/knp_snappy5eda86d6b1db60.16736040.html' '/tmp/knp_snappy5eda86d6b1ec54.99483053.pdf'.
@abdulbazith You're using the windows path here. Your shared server is probably running on Ubuntu so you need to use a different path here.
Also, wkhtmltopdf needs to be installed on the server. Normally you can't do this with shared hosting. You need to find a different solution for your PDFs.
A good alternative is DOMPDF: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
@bobbybouwmann thank you soo much for your response.
actually these much days i used barryvdh/laravel-dompdf only because just my client expected only tables so.
But now my client is a school. so they need charts, graphs, progress bar for student reports.
barryvdh/laravel-dompdf not supporting external css, javascript charts etc. so when i referred in google most of them said it is impossible to use barryvdh/laravel-dompdf for javascript charts,
so i planned to use barryvdh/laravel-snappy package.
in local pdf working fine. but as you said in live how i should do the change?? whether it is possible in shared hosting??
and one more thing i face error when working taking print out in images in barryvdh/laravel-snappy
the error is
The exit status code '1' says something went wrong: stderr: "Loading pages (1/6) [> ] 0% [======> ] 10% QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files QNetworkAccessFileBackendFactory: URL has no schema set, use file:// for files [===========================> ] 45% Warning: Failed to load file:///C:/Users/Azasoft/AppData/Local/Temp/css/font-for-print.css (ignore) Warning: Failed to load file:///C:/Users/Azasoft/AppData/Local/Temp/css/question.css (ignore) Warning: Failed to load file:///C:/Users/Azasoft/AppData/Local/Temp/css/progress-bar.css (ignore) [============================> ] 48% Error: Failed to load c:/xampp/htdocs/Laravel/OnlineExam-18-05-2020-staff/public/storage/, with network status code 202 and http status code 0 - Cannot open c:/xampp/htdocs/Laravel/OnlineExam-18-05-2020-staff/public/storage/: Path is a directory
what may be the problem???
@bobbybouwmann kindly please suggest any package. that need to support external css and js files.
still now i cant get any idea please..
you suggested Browsrshot but i need to fetch few data from db. i will list all the names in the screen and then i will check few students and then will take pdf. i think this is not possible in BrowserShot.
Kindly please suggest any package
Hi, I also faced the same issue and now pdf in shared hosting "Hostinger" successfully working.
Hi @Pratibha Rana, how did you resolve it? Did you use LaravelSnappyPDF? I'm facing the same issues in my hostinger.
I already replied to you on the other thread.
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