cviebrock/laravel-news-sitemap

A simple Google News Sitemap generator for Laravel.

laravel-news-sitemap

A Google News sitemap generator for Laravel 4., _(*1)

, _(*2)

Installation

Add the package to your composer.json file:, _(*3)

'cviebrock/laravel-news-sitemap' => 'dev-master'

Add the service provider to app/config/app.php, _(*4)

'providers' => array(
    ...
    'Cviebrock\LaravelNewsSitemap\ServiceProvider',
);

Publish the configuration file:, _(*5)

php artisan config:publish cviebrock/laravel-news-sitemap

Sample Usage

// create a new sitemap instance
$sitemap = \App::make('Cviebrock\LaravelNewsSitemap\NewsSitemap');

// if it's not cached, then populate with entries
if (!$sitemap->isCached()) {

    foreach (Posts::all() as $post) {

        $extras = [];
        $images = [];

        foreach ($post->images as $image) {
            $images[] = [
                'loc' => $image->url,
                'caption' => $image->caption
            ];
        }

        $extras['keywords'] = $post->topics->lists('name');

        $this->sitemap->addEntry($post->url, $post->title, $post->published_at, $extras, $images);
    }

}

// returns an XML response
return $sitemap->render();

Bugs, Suggestions and Contributions

Please use Github for bugs, comments, suggestions., _(*6)

1. Fork the project.
2. Create your bugfix/feature branch and write your (well-commented) code.
3. Commit your changes and push to your repository.
4. Create a new pull request against this project's master branch.

Copyright and License

laravel-news-sitemap was written by Colin Viebrock and released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details., _(*7)

Copyright 2014 Colin Viebrock, _(*8)