README

This package helps you to very easily generate a sitemap for your website.

Installation

You can include this package through Composer using:

composer require roelofjan-elsinga/sitemap-generator

Usage

use SitemapGenerator\SitemapGenerator;

$generator = new SitemapGenerator();

$generator->add('https://test-url.com/');

$xml_string = (string)$generator;
// OR
$xml_string = $generator->toXML();

print $xml_string;

If you don't want to provide the domain name every single time, you can do any of the following steps:

$generator = new SitemapGenerator('https://test-url.com');

// or

$generator = new SitemapGenerator();

$generator->setDomain('https://test-url.com');

// or

$generator = SiteMapGenerator::boot('https://test-url.com');

Now that you have set the domain name, you can simply do this:

$generator->add('/');

This will result in:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <url>
        <loc>https://test-url.com/</loc>
        <priority>1</priority>
        <lastmod>2019-03-26</lastmod>
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    </url>
</urlset>

Available methods:

• boot(): This provides a named constructor for the SitemapGenerator class
• remove(string $url): This will remove the given URL from the sitemap
• links(): This will given you the added URL's as an array

No duplication

The add() method will filter out any duplicate links, so adding a link twice will not result in an additional link in the sitemap.

Customization

You can customize the priority, lastmod, and changefreq values by providing the add() method with additional information:

public function add(
    string $url, 
    $priority = 1, 
    string $last_modified = null, 
    string $change_frequency = 'weekly'
): SitemapGenerator

This means you can do something like this:

$generator->add('https://test-url.com/blog', 0.9, date('Y-m-d'), 'monthly');

// Or if you've set the domain earlier, this is even simpler:

$generator = SitemapGenerator::boot()->setDomain('https://test-url.com');

$generator->add('/blog', 0.9, date('Y-m-d'), 'monthly');

Valid values

priority: A number between 0 and 1, 1 being the most important page, 0 being the least important.

last_modified: any date in the "Y-m-d" format

change_frequency: yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, etc.