How to Automatically Generate Sitemap with Laravel?

I use the spatie sitemap generator for all my laravel projects. And here is the steps I made written in brief.

I install the package via composer

composer require spatie/laravel-sitemap

I publish the config(uration) file by this command, in case I wanted to edit it.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider" --tag=config

this command will copy the config to config/sitemap.php where you would be able to change it depending on your project needs.

If I want to use it now, I create a code like this.

SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')->writeToFile(public/sitemap.xml);

I use this code inside one of controller I have - where it suits. But usually I don't use it inside controllers, I automate the sitemap creation.

First, I generate a laravel command by this artisan command.

php artisan make:command GenerateSitemap

then I go to app/Console/Commands/GenerateSitemap.php in my project, and make it like this code.

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;

class GenerateSitemap extends Command
{
    /**
     * The console command name.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'sitemap:generate';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Generate the sitemap.';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        // modify this to your own needs
        SitemapGenerator::create(config('app.url'))
            ->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));
    }
}

then I can generate the sitemap manually by this artisan command.

php artisan sitemap:generate

But I want to automate it, not convert code into command !!

So I schedule sitemap generation daily by laravel scheduler. I just add the scheduling code to this file in my project app/Console/Kernel.php .

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('sitemap:generate')->daily();
}

note: just add the yellow-highlighted line of code to the schedule method. If there are more code on it, keep them too.

Now, after a day, you'll see a sitemap created on your website. Just open this url (https://learns7.com/sitemap.xml). use your domain instead of learns7.com domain.

If you want more information about spatie sitemap generator, or how to config it, read more on the official github repo here : https://github.com/spatie/laravel-sitemap/blob/master/README.md 

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