hugsbrugs/php-prerender-spa

PHP Prerender Single Page Application utilities

php-prerender-spa

This librairy provides utilities function to serve Search Engine Crawlers Website Snapshots, _(*1)

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Install

Install package with composer, _(*3)

composer require hugsbrugs/php-prerender-spa

In your PHP code, load library, _(*4)

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
use Hug\PrerenderSpa\PrerenderSpa as PrerenderSpa;

Usage

First Step : Generate Your Webpages Snapshots

$prerender_url = 'http://123.123.123.123:3000/';
$prerender_auth = 'USER:PASSWORD'; // or null
$output = __DIR__ .'/../data/snapshots/'; // directory where to store snapshot (must be writable)

# Load Urls From Sitemap
$urls = PrerenderSpa::get_sitemap_urls('/path/to/sitemap.xml');

# Or Set Urls manually
// $urls = ['https://hugo.maugey.fr/developeur-web/HTML5'];

# Instanciate PrerenderSpa
$PrerenderSpa = new PrerenderSpa($urls, $output, $prerender_url, $prerender_auth);
#  Launch Snapshot Generation
$PrerenderSpa->prerender();
# Wait ....
# Print Report
error_log(print_r($PrerenderSpa->report, true));
# Set Your Personnalized 404
$html = 'My Personalized 404';
PrerenderSpa::set_404($html, $output);
# Set Your Personnalized 500
$html = 'My Personalized 500';
PrerenderSpa::set_500($html, $output);

Second Step : Serve Webpage Snapshots to web crawlers

Redirect search engine crawlers to prerender.php service, _(*5)

<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|yahoo|bingbot|baiduspider [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_
    RewriteRule ^(?!.*?(\.js|\.css|\.xml|\.less|\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.pdf|\.doc|\.txt|\.ico|\.rss|\.zip|\.mp3|\.rar|\.exe|\.wmv|\.doc|\.avi|\.ppt|\.mpg|\.mpeg|\.tif|\.wav|\.mov|\.psd|\.ai|\.xls|\.mp4|\.m4a|\.swf|\.dat|\.dmg|\.iso|\.flv|\.m4v|\.torrent|\.ttf|\.woff))(index\.php)?(.*) /prerender.php/https://hugo.maugey.fr/$3 [P,L]
</IfModule>

Have a look at prerender.php, _(*6)

# Where do you store prerender filesystem
$output = __DIR__ . '/../data/';

# .htaccess http://prerender.io/URL_TO_SNAP
$url = $_REQUEST['URL'];

$html = null;
$http_code = null;

try
{
    # Get Snapshot
    if(false !== $snapshot = PrerenderSpa::get_snapshot($url, $output)
    {
        $http_code = 200;
        $html = $snapshot;
    }
    else
    {
        # Set Header status 404 Not Found
        $http_code = 404;
        $html = PrerenderSpa::get_404($output);
    }

}
catch(\Exception $e)
{
    $http_code = 500;
    $html = PrerenderSpa::get_500($output);
}

Http::header_status($http_code);
echo $html;

Third Step : Generate Snapshot On Demand

Repeat First Step by providing only URLs whose content has changed to optimize server from running headless browser snapshot service for nothing., _(*7)

Why This Service ?

I've been using Prerender service hosted on my servers for a while now and was using brenett extension to cache snapshots but that solution was not satisfying me anymore because of a fixed cache time. So snapshots were regenerated even if they didn't needed to be. And time for serving snapshots, which is critical from an SEO point of view was just an abomination because of the lack of pre-prendering after cache expires and before crawlers were asking for content. This solution is not perfect because you need to manually list files you want to regenerate snapshots for but it suit my needs ;), _(*8)

Unit Tests

composer exec phpunit

To Do

Compress gzip saved HTML Archive snapshots, _(*9)

Author

Hugo Maugey visit my website ;), _(*10)