Step 1: Download FPDF folder from http://www.fpdf.org/ . Step 2: Unzip the downloaded Fpdf file and name it “fpdf” or however you require and make sure that you use the same name while calling it. Step 3: Move the “fpdf” unzipped files to your /app/Vendor directory within Cakephp. Now you should have the directory path as /app/Vendor/fpdf. Step 4: Create a new Cakephp layout file for the pdfs. We will use this layout when serving a pdf to the client. Create a file called pdf.ctp inside of /app/View/Layouts. Add the following code to /app/View/Layouts/pdf.ctp Layout: /app/View/Layouts/pdf.ctp 1 2 3 4 <?php header ( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"' ) ; echo $content_for_layout ; ?> The header function above tells the browser that it is going to receive a file called download.pdf. If you want to change the name