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Inside this article we will see a very interesting topic i.e How to create a Laravel 9 signature pad & save using jquery. Signature Pad – HTML5 canvas based smooth signature drawing using variable width spline interpolation.

This tutorial will give you a idea to integrate a signature pad into your application and save signature generated image to server. For signature pad integration we will use jquery plugin and to save signature to server as an image we will use laravel 9 framework.

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Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Images Folder

Go to /public folder available at application root. Create a folder with name images. We will save generated signature images inside it.

Make sure images folder should have sufficient permission to write content into it.

Create Controller

Open project into terminal and run this command into it.

$ php artisan make:controller DataController

It will create DataController.php file inside /app/Http/Controllers folder. Open controller file and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class DataController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return view('signature');
    }
      
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $folderPath = public_path('images/');
        
        $image = explode(";base64,", $request->signed);
              
        $image_type = explode("image/", $image[0]);
           
        $image_type_png = $image_type[1];
           
        $image_base64 = base64_decode($image[1]);
           
        $file = $folderPath . uniqid() . '.'.$image_type_png;
      
        file_put_contents($file, $image_base64);
      
        return back()->with('success', 'Signature saved successfully !!');
    }
}

Create Template

Create a fie signature.blade.php inside /resources/views folder.

Open signature.blade.php and write this code into it.

<html>
<head>
    <title>Create Signature Pad Using jQuery in Laravel 9</title>
    
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.css">    
    
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.css"/>     
    
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://keith-wood.name/css/jquery.signature.css">
    
    <style>
        .kbw-signature { width: 100%; height: 200px;}
        #sig canvas{ width: 100% !important; height: auto;}
    </style>  
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
   <div class="row">
       <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-3 mt-5">
           <div class="card">
               <div class="card-header">
                   <h5>Create Signature Pad Using jQuery in Laravel 9</h5>
               </div>
               <div class="card-body">
                    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
                        <div class="alert alert-success  alert-dismissible">
                            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>  
                            <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
                        </div>
                    @endif
                    <form method="POST" action="{{ route('signature_pad.store') }}">
                        @csrf
                        <div class="col-md-12">
                            <label class="" for="">Draw Signature:</label>
                            <br/>
                            <div id="sig"></div>
                            <br><br>
                            <button id="clear" class="btn btn-danger">Clear Signature</button>
                            <button class="btn btn-success">Save</button>
                            <textarea id="signature" name="signed" style="display: none"></textarea>
                        </div>
                    </form>
               </div>
           </div>
       </div>
   </div>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script> 

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://keith-wood.name/js/jquery.signature.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var sig = $('#sig').signature({syncField: '#signature', syncFormat: 'PNG'});
    $('#clear').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        sig.signature('clear');
        $("#signature").val('');
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add these routes into it.

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\DataController;

//...

Route::get('signature-pad', [DataController::class, 'index']);
Route::post('signature-pad', [DataController::class, 'store'])->name('signature_pad.store');

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL – http://127.0.0.1:8000/signature-pad

When we hit Save button, it will save the signature image into images folder.

We hope this article helped you to learn Laravel 9 Create Signature Pad & Save Using jQuery in a very detailed way.

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