Easily generate RSS feeds
This package provides an easy way to generate rss feeds. There's almost no coding required on your part. Just follow the installation instructions update your config file and you're good to go.
Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.
Installation
You can install the package via composer:
composer require spatie/laravel-feed
Register the routes the feeds will be displayed on using the feeds
-macro.
// In routes/web.php
Route::feeds();
You can pass a string as a first argument of the macro. The string will be used as a url prefix for your feed.
Next, you must publish the config file:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Feed\FeedServiceProvider" --tag="config"
Here's what that looks like:
return [
'feeds' => [
'main' => [
/*
* Here you can specify which class and method will return
* the items that should appear in the feed. For example:
* 'App\Model@getAllFeedItems'
*
* You can also pass a parameter to that method:
* ['App\Model@getAllFeedItems', 'parameter']
*/
'items' => '',
/*
* The feed will be available on this url.
*/
'url' => '',
'title' => 'My feed',
],
],
];
Optionally you can publish the view files:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Feed\FeedServiceProvider" --tag="views"
Upgrading from v1
Version 2 introduces some major API changes to the package, but upgrading shouldn't take too long.
Replace the FeedItem
interface with the new Feedable
interface on your models. Visit the Usage usage for more details on implementing the new interface.
- use Spatie\Feed\FeedItem;
+ use Spatie\Feed\Feedable;
- class NewsItem extends Model implements FeedItem
+ class NewsItem extends Model implements Feedable
Rename your config file from laravel-feed.php
to feed.php
.
config/
- laravel-feed.php
+ feed.php
Change the links @include
directive.
- @include('laravel-feed::feed-links')
+ @include('feed::links')
Usage
Imagine you have a model named NewsItem
that contains records that you want to have displayed in the feed.
First you must implement the Feedable
interface on that model. Feedable
expects one method: toFeedItem
, which should return a FeedItem
instance.
// app/NewsItem.php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\Feed\Feedable;
use Spatie\Feed\FeedItem;
class NewsItem extends Model implements Feedable
{
public function toFeedItem()
{
return FeedItem::create()
->id($this->id)
->title($this->title)
->summary($this->summary)
->updated($this->updated_at)
->link($this->link)
->author($this->author);
}
}
If you prefer, returning an associative array with the necessary keys will do the trick too.
// app/NewsItem.php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\Feed\Feedable;
class NewsItem extends Model implements Feedable
{
public function toFeedItem()
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'title' => $this->title,
'summary' => $this->summary,
'updated' => $this->updated_at,
'link' => $this->link,
'author' => $this->author,
];
}
}
Next, you'll have to create a method that will return all the items that must be displayed in the feed. You can name that method anything you like and you can do any query you want.
// app/NewsItem.php
public static function getFeedItems()
{
return NewsItem::all();
}
Finally, you have to put the name of your class and the url where you want the feed to rendered in the config file:
// config/feed.php
return [
'feeds' => [
'news' => [
/*
* Here you can specify which class and method will return
* the items that should appear in the feed. For example:
* '\App\Model@getAllFeedItems'
*/
'items' => 'App\NewsItem@getFeedItems',
/*
* The feed will be available on this url.
*/
'url' => '/feed',
'title' => 'All newsitems on mysite.com',
],
],
];
The items
key must point to a method that returns one of the following:
- An array or collection of
Feedable
s - An array or collection of
FeedItem
s - An array or collection of arrays containing feed item values
Automatically generate feed links
To discover a feed, feed readers are looking for a tag in the head section of your html documents that looks like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="News" href="/feed">
You can add this to your <head>
through a partial view.
@include('feed::links')
Changelog
Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.
Testing
composer test
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Security
If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
Postcardware
You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.
Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.
We publish all received postcards on our company website.
Credits
PHP 7
This package requires PHP 7, and we won't make a PHP 5 compatible version. We have good reasons to go PHP 7 only.
Support us
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License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.