DOMPDF with laravel - cannot load images in html file

Question

I'm trying to generate pdf file with laravel and dompdf lib. Here is my code from controller:

public function create(Request $request) {
    $pdf = new Dompdf();
    $html = Storage::disk('local')->get('public/pdf/template.html');
    $pdf->loadHtml($html, 'UTF-8');
    $pdf->setPaper('A4', 'portrait');
    $pdf->render();
    $filename = "Hi!";
    return $pdf->stream($filename, ["Attachment" => false]);
}

And in template.html I got some html, somewhere there I got images like this:

<img src="img/logo.png" alt="BTS">

But dompdf cant write this image: Image not found or type unknown. My file system is:

.pdf ...img ......here is images ...template.html ...*some_fonts_files*

But at the same time, fonts are loading fine. What should I do to render images in template.html?

Solution 1

I believe that for dompdf you need to pass a properly accessable url rather than relative paths.

Try <img src="{{ asset('img/logo.png')}}" alt="BTS">

Alternatively if asset doesn't work please try <img src="{{ public_path('img/logo.png')}}" alt="BTS">

Also please note that asset uses the public directory as the base_url to calculate the 'asset' from.

Solution 2

Me too i struggled for the same error for 3 days. Also when i tried tricks mentioned above, none of them worked too. But when i changed the image file to .jpg file(extension) everything worked well.

<img src="{{ public_path('img/logo.jpg') }}" >

• Laravel version: 5.8.38
• PHP version: 7.3
• barryvdh/laravel-dompdf version: 0.8.6

Comments

[Simon R]

If you dd(asset('img/logo.png')); what does that show?

[Alexxosipov]

This URL works fine from browser, but from dompdf it does not work

[Simon R]

perhaps instead try <img src="{{ public_path('img/logo.png')}}" alt="BTS">

[Simon R]

Does it work if you use an external image - something like cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/…

[Alexxosipov]

oh, no, it works fine, my bad! Thanks :) Update your answer, then I will mark it as correct :)

[AbingPj]

thanks its work,.. last version (0.8.5) i uses asset() function its work but in version 0.8.6 it not work. @Angelwise why the asset() function is not work anymore?

[Toby Okeke]

In my case, it wasn't working because I tried to access a remote URL and in the config, it defaults to not allow remote accessing anything.