In Laravel, many times we may need to create a link to download sample CSV file. So that user can download sample CSV file from our website and upload correct formatted file.

It's a very simple task and to accomplish that we need to follow following simple steps.

Step 1 :- Creating a link to download sample CSV file in our view.

{!! Html::link('admin/employee/sample-csv-download', 'Download Sample CSV', array("class" =>"btn btn-default", "style" => "")) !!} 

Step 2:- Make a route configuration in your routes.php

Route::get('admin/employee/sample-csv-download', function(){
    $headers = array( 'Content-Type' => 'text/csv');
    return Response::download('csv/sample.csv', 'sample.csv', $headers);
});

Step 3:- Create a folder in your public directory named as csv and add a file named as sample.csv