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.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-feed

// 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',

            /*
             * Custom view for the items.
             *
             * Defaults to feed::feed if not present.
             */
            'view' => 'feed::feed',
        ],
    ],

];

The items key must point to a method that returns one of the following:

An array or collection of Feedables
An array or collection of FeedItems
An array or collection of arrays containing feed item values

Customizing your feed views

This package provides, out of the box, the feed::feed view that displays your feeds details.

However, you could use a custom view per feed by providing a view key inside of your feed configuration.

In the following example, we're using the previous News feed with a custom feeds.news view (located on resources/views/feeds/news.blade.php):

// config/feed.php

return [

    'feeds' => [
        'news' => [
            'items' => 'App\NewsItem@getFeedItems',

            'url' => '/feed',

            'title' => 'All newsitems on mysite.com',

            /*
             * Custom view for the items.
             *
             * Defaults to feed::feed if not present.
             */
            'view' => 'feeds.news',
        ],
    ],

];

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

Postcardware

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Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

We publish all received postcards on our company website.

Credits

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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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