Generate Dynamic sitemap in Laravel – onlinecode

In this tutorial, i will tell about sitemap and what are the benefits of using sitemap in website and how can you create dynamic sitemap in Laravel using roumen/sitemap package.

There are so many benefits of using sitemap in your application, sitemap inform to search engine about any changes which is recently made in your website and using sitemap in website its become easier for search engine to rank your web pages.

Its good for your website to achieve better ranking on google.

Sitemap is just a simple file where all web pages of your website are listed to inform search engine about your site content.

roumen/sitemap Package Installation

Add following line of code in your composer to install packages in your application.

"roumen/sitemap":"dev-master"

"roumen/sitemap": "dev-master"

Now run composer update command from command line.

Now add roumen service provider in followin path config/app.php

'RoumenSitemapSitemapServiceProvider',

Now add route for sitemap.

Route::get('sitemap.xml',function(){
$sitemap=app("sitemap");
$articles= AppArticle::all();//fetch all articles to make url 
$sitemap->setCache('laravel.sitemap',60);
$date=date('c');
$priority=1.0;
foreach($articlesas$key=>$article){
$url=route('detail',[$article->slug]);
$sitemap->add($url,$article->updated_at,$priority);
}
return$sitemap->render('xml');
});

Route::get('sitemap.xml', function () {
   $sitemap = app("sitemap");      
   $articles = AppArticle::all() ; //fetch all articles to make url 
   $sitemap->setCache('laravel.sitemap',60);
   $date = date('c'); 
   $priority = 1.0;
   foreach($articles as $key=>$article){
      $url = route('detail',[$article->slug]) ;
      $sitemap->add($url,$article->updated_at,$priority) ;
    }
   return $sitemap->render('xml'); 
});