Generate PDFs in PHP and Laravel

Prerequisites

• A PDFDesignAPI account and API token.
• A template UUID with a schema and at least one data binding.
• Trusted server-side code where the token remains secret.

Generate and save the PDF

use IlluminateSupportFacadesHttp;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesStorage;

$response = Http::withToken(config('services.pdfdesignapi.token'))
    ->timeout(60)
    ->post(
        'https://pdfdesignapi.com/api/v1/generate/single/'.config('services.pdfdesignapi.template_uuid'),
        ['data' => ['customer' => ['name' => 'Example BV']]],
    );

$response->throw();
Storage::disk('local')->put('documents/document.pdf', $response->body());

Production notes

• Place tokens in environment-backed Laravel configuration.
• Authorize access when serving the stored PDF.
• Queue asynchronous or batch document work instead of doing it inside a long browser request.