Laravel 8 Generate Dynamic XML Sitemap

We would like to share with you how to generate dynamic XML sitemap in laravel 8(Laravel 8 Generate Dynamic XML Sitemap). we will see scratch step by step generate dynamic XML sitemap in laravel 8.

A sitemap is described to navigate the website. users can easily search to navigate the site by sitemap. it is creating in the XML coding.

A sitemap provides information about our site and google can easily read XML files and crawl our site.

We have given below example of how to generate dynamic XML sitemap using laravel. Add the below code in your controller file and Get the data from the database you want to create sitemap URL and pass it in the view file.

So you can follow the below steps.

Overview

Step 1: Install Laravel 8

Step 2: Create Routes

Step 3: Create a Controller

Step 4: Create a Model

Step 5: Create Blade File

Step 6: Run Our Laravel Application

Step 1: Install Laravel 8

We are going to install laravel 8, so first open the command prompt or terminal and go to xampp htdocs folder directory using the command prompt. after then run the below command.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel8_sitemap

1	composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel8_sitemap

Step 2: Create Routes

Add the following route code in the “routes/web.php” file.

<?php
use App\Http\Controllers\SitemapController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/ 
Route::get('sitemap.xml',[SitemapController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('sitemap.xml/article',[SitemapController::class, 'articles']);
Route::get('sitemap.xml/category',[SitemapController::class, 'categories']);
?>

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\SitemapController;

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

| Web Routes

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These

| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which

| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!

Route::get('sitemap.xml',[SitemapController::class, 'index']);

Route::get('sitemap.xml/article',[SitemapController::class, 'articles']);

Route::get('sitemap.xml/category',[SitemapController::class, 'categories']);

Step 3: Create a Controller

Here in this step, You can use the below command use to create a controller.

php artisan make:controller SitemapController

1	php artisan make:controller SitemapController

app/Http/Controllers/SitemapController.php

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Post;
use App\Models\Category;
  
class SitemapController extends Controller
{
    public function index() {
      $articles = Post::all()->first();
      $categories = Category::all()->first();
      return response()->view('sitemap.index', [
          'article' => $articles,
          'category' => $categories
      ])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
    }
    public function articles() {
       $article = Post::latest()->get();
       return response()->view('sitemap.article', [
           'article' => $article,
       ])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
   }

    public function categories() {
       $category = Category::all();
       return response()->view('sitemap.category', [
           'category' => $category,
       ])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
   }
}
?>

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Models\Post;

use App\Models\Category;

class SitemapController extends Controller

{

public function index() {

$articles = Post::all()->first();

$categories = Category::all()->first();

return response()->view('sitemap.index', [

'article' => $articles,

'category' => $categories

])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');

}

public function articles() {

$article = Post::latest()->get();

return response()->view('sitemap.article', [

'article' => $article,

])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');

}

public function categories() {

$category = Category::all();

return response()->view('sitemap.category', [

'category' => $category,

])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');

}

Step 4: Create Blade File

Finally, We will create index.blade.php, article.blade.php, and category.blade.php files in the “resources/views/sitemap/” folder directory and paste the below code.
resources/views/index.blade.php

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>

<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
        <loc>http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/article</loc>
    </sitemap>
    <sitemap>
        <loc>http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/category</loc>
    </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>

<loc>http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/article</loc>

</sitemap>

<loc>http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/category</loc>

</sitemap>

</sitemapindex>

resources/views/article.blade.php

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    @foreach ($article as $content)
        <url>
            <loc>{{ url('/') }}article/{{ $content->slug }}</loc>
            <lastmod>{{ $content->created_at->tz('UTC')->toAtomString() }}</lastmod>
            <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
            <priority>0.9</priority>
        </url>
    @endforeach
</urlset>

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>

@foreach ($article as $content)

<url>

<loc>{{ url('/') }}article/{{ $content->slug }}</loc>

<lastmod>{{ $content->created_at->tz('UTC')->toAtomString() }}</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>

@endforeach

</urlset>

resources/views/category.blade.php

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    @foreach ($category as $category)
        <url>
            <loc>{{ url('/') }}article/category/{{ $category ->slug }}</loc>
            <lastmod>{{ $content->created_at->tz('UTC')->toAtomString() }}</lastmod>
            <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
            <priority>0.9</priority>
        </url>
    @endforeach
</urlset>

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>

@foreach ($category as $category)

<url>

<loc>{{ url('/') }}article/category/{{ $category ->slug }}</loc>

<lastmod>{{ $content->created_at->tz('UTC')->toAtomString() }}</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>

@endforeach

</urlset>

Step 5: Run Our Laravel Application
We can start the server and run this example using the below command.

php artisan serve

1	php artisan serve

Now we will run our example using the below Url in the browser.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml
http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/article
http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/category

http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml

http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/article

http://127.0.0.1:8000/sitemap.xml/category