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 and provide some good values for the config file and you're good to go.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-feed

Next up, the service provider must be registered:

'providers' => [
    ...
    Spatie\Feed\FeedServiceProvider::class,

];

Important note: The provider must be registered after your application's route service provider (App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider)

Then, you must register the routes the feeds will be displayed on using the feeds-macro. It's best to put this macro before registering any other routes.

// in your routes file
Route::feeds();

Next, you must publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Feed\FeedServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This is the content of the published file laravel-feed.php:

return [

    'feeds' => [
        [
            /*
             * 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',

        ],
    ],

];

You can pass a string as a first argument of the macro. The string will be used as a prefix for the value specified in the url key of the config file.

Please note that you can register multiple feeds by having multiple items in the feeds-key.

Optionally you can publish the view files:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Feed\FeedServiceProvider" --tag="views"

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="linkToYourFeed" />

You can put that link manually in your template, but this package can also automate that for you. Just put this include in the head section of your template.

 @include('laravel-feed::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 FeedItem interface on that model. Here's an example.

class NewsItem implements FeedItem
{
    public function getFeedItemId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    public function getFeedItemTitle() : string
    {
        return $this->title;
    }

    public function getFeedItemSummary() : string
    {
        return $this->text;
    }

    public function getFeedItemUpdated() : Carbon
    {
        return $this->last_updated;
    }

    public function getFeedItemLink() : string
    {
        return action('NewsItemController@detail', [$this->url]);
    }
    
    public function getFeedItemAuthor() : string
    {
        return $this->author;
    }
}

Next, you'll have to create a method that will return all the newsItems that must be displayed in the feed. You can name that method anything you like and you can do any query you want.

//in your NewsItem model

public function getFeedItems()
{
   return NewsItem::all();
}

And finally you have to put the name of your class and the url where you want the feed to rendered in the config file:

//app/config/laravel-feed

return [

    'feeds' => [
        [
            /*
             * 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',
        ],
    ],

];

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 freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

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.

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