willvincent/feeds

Laravel 5 Service Provider for the SimplePie library

Laravel Feeds

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A simple Laravel 5/6/7/8/9/10 service provider for including the SimplePie library., _(*3)

Installation

The Laravel 5/6/7/8/9/10 Feeds Service Provider can be installed via Composer by requiring the willvincent/feeds package in your project's composer.json., _(*4)

{
    "require": {
        "willvincent/feeds": "2.3.*"
    }
}

Configuration

If you're using Laravel 5.5 or newer you may skip the next step., _(*5)

To use the Feeds Service Provider, you must register the provider when bootstrapping your Laravel application., _(*6)

Find the providers key in your config/app.php and register the Service Provider., _(*7)

    'providers' => [
        // ...
        willvincent\Feeds\FeedsServiceProvider::class,
    ],

Find the aliases key in your config/app.php and register the Facade., _(*8)

    'aliases' => [
        // ...
        'Feeds'    => willvincent\Feeds\Facades\FeedsFacade::class,
    ],

Usage

Run php artisan vendor:publish --provider="willvincent\Feeds\FeedsServiceProvider" to publish the default config file, edit caching setting withing the resulting config/feeds.php file as desired., _(*9)

See SimplePie Documentation for full API usage documentation., _(*10)

The make() accepts 3 paramaters, the first parameter is an array of feed URLs, the second parameter is the max number of items to be returned per feed, and while the third parameter is a boolean which you can set to force to read unless content type not a valid RSS., _(*11)

$feed = \Feeds::make('http://feed/url/goes/here');

Note: In Laravel 5 and newer, Facades must either be prefixed with a backslash, or brought into scope with a use [facadeName] declaration.

Example controller method, and it's related view:

Controller:, _(*12)

  public function demo() {
    $feed = \Feeds::make('http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom');
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

or Force to read unless content type not a valid RSS, _(*13)

  public function demo() {
    $feed = \Feeds::make('http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom', true); // if RSS Feed has invalid mime types, force to read
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

Multifeeds example controller method, and it's related view:

Controller:, _(*14)

  public function demo() {
    $feed = \Feeds::make([
        'http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom',
        'http://tutorialslodge.com/feed'
    ], 5);
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

or Force to read unless content type not a valid RSS, _(*15)

  public function demo() {
        $feed = \Feeds::make(['http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom',
        'http://tutorialslodge.com/feed'
    ], 5, true); // if RSS Feed has invalid mime types, force to read
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

View:, _(*16)

@extends('app')

@section('content')



    
{{ $title }}
  



  @foreach ($items as $item)



      
{{ $item->get_title() }}
      
{{ $item->get_description() }}, (*17)
      
Posted on {{ $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a') }}, (*18)
    


  @endforeach
@endsection