tutorialworld4u: sitemap generator for Laravel 4

Installation

Add the following to your composer.json file :

"roumen/sitemap": "dev-master"

Then register this service provider with Laravel :

'Roumen\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider',

Publish configuration file. (OPTIONAL)

php artisan config:publish roumen/sitemap

Return dynamic sitemap

Dynamic sitemap means that everytime the URL http://domain.com/sitemap is called we gather all current URL’s and return then in XML or whatever else supported format.

For better optimization and for reducing the stress on the system we can cache that sitemap for a specified time period using this plugin also.

In order to return the sitemap we first have to define a route to handle our request /sitemap:

File: routes.php

Folder: app

You can add this directly to your `routes.php` file or you can place it somewhere else for better separation of code.

Route::get('sitemap', function()

// create new sitemap object
$sitemap = App::make("sitemap");

// set cache (key (string), duration in minutes
// (Carbon);

And that’s it! Now you have a sitemap for your application. Don’t forget, you still have to include all of yours URL’s in the above code using the same syntax.

Example: How to create dynamic sitemap

Route::get('sitemap', function()int), turn on/off (boolean))
 // by default cache is disabled
 $sitemap->setCache('laravel.sitemap', 3600);

 // add item to the sitemap (url, date, priority, freq)
 $sitemap->add(URL::to(), '2012-08-25T20:10:00+02:00', '1.0', 'daily');
 $sitemap->add(URL::to('page'), '2012-08-26T12:30:00+02:00', '0.9', 'monthly');

 // get all posts from db
 $posts = DB::table('posts')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

 // add every post to the sitemap
 foreach ($posts as $post)
 
 $sitemap->add($post->slug, $post->modified, $post->priority, $post->freq);
 

 // show your sitemap (options: 'xml' (default), 'html', 'txt', 'ror-rss', 'ror-rdf')
 return $sitemap->render('xml');

);

Example: How to generate sitemap file

Route::get('mysitemap', function()

 // create new sitemap object
 $sitemap = App::make("sitemap");

 // add items to the sitemap (url, date, priority, freq)
 $sitemap->add(URL::to(), '2012-08-25T20:10:00+02:00', '1.0', 'daily');
 $sitemap->add(URL::to('page'), '2012-08-26T12:30:00+02:00', '0.9', 'monthly');

 // get all posts from db
 $posts = DB::table('posts')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

 // add every post to the sitemap
 foreach ($posts as $post)
 
 $sitemap->add($post->slug, $post->modified, $post->priority, $post->freq);
 

 // generate your sitemap (format, filename)
 $sitemap->store('xml', 'mysitemap');
 // this will generate file mysitemap.xml to your public folder

);