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According to Google, most sites would benefit from a sitemap, which helps bots know what pages should be crawled.

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to crawl your site more efficiently. A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files. For example, when the page was last updated and any alternate language versions of the page.

It's possible to create these manually, and we have a tutorial on how to create a sitemap manually here, but a package named "laravel-sitemap" from Spatie makes creating a sitemap easier than ever.

One of the benefits of the package is it supplies two methods of creating a sitemap. The first is it can automatically crawl your site and build it based on internal links, or you can have full control and build it manually.

Laravel Sitemap Auto Crawling

All you need to do for auto crawling is install the packakge and then tell it the URL to start crawling.

use Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapGenerator;

$path = public_path('sitemap.xml');
SitemapGenerator::create('https://example.com')->writeToFile($path);

The generator can execute JavaScript on each page, so links injected into the dom by JavaScript will also be crawled.

Laravel Sitemap Manual Set up

I'm using this here on Laravel News because we have thousands of pages that need to be added to the index. To set this up, first apply the code to your models:

use Spatie\Sitemap\Contracts\Sitemapable;
use Spatie\Sitemap\Tags\Url;

class Article extends Model implements Sitemapable
{
    public function toSitemapTag(): Url | string | array
    {
        return Url::create(route('article.details', $this))
            ->setLastModificationDate(Carbon::create($this->updated_at))
            ->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_YEARLY)
            ->setPriority(0.1);
    }
}

Then, you can generate your sitemap like this:

use Spatie\Sitemap\Sitemap;

Sitemap::create()
  ->add(Post::all()
->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));

How we use Laravel Sitemap

As mentioned, we are using the manual setup and here is the full code to generate our sitemap:

Sitemap::create()
    ->add($this->build_index(Article::active()->get(), 'sitemap_articles.xml'))
    ->add($this->build_index(Partner::active()->get(), 'sitemap_partners.xml'))
    ->add($this->build_index(Category::all(), 'sitemap_categories.xml'))
    ->add($this->build_index(Package::all(), 'sitemap_packages.xml'))
    ->add(Url::create('/')->setPriority(1)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/newsletter')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_MONTHLY))
    ->add(Url::create('/popular-laravel-packages')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_MONTHLY))
    ->add(Url::create('/links')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/links/new')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/partners')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/partners/agencies')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/partners/tools')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->add(Url::create('/partners/education')->setPriority(0.5)->setChangeFrequency(Url::CHANGE_FREQUENCY_ALWAYS))
    ->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'));

The first part builds out the indexes with lots of results, then we manually add pages that are from the main navigation. The included video has complete details.

More info

See the officia package for complete details on set up, configuration, and usage for your application.

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Let's say you have a paragraph of text with all sorts of weird formatting. Maybe it's from someone copying and pasting text into your CMS, or it's just in a weird state. Something like this:

$paragraph = "hello this is a test \n  \t just a test   and stuff ";

As you can see, it has extra spaces, a newline character, a tab character, and just oddly formatted.

Laravel provides a great solution to this called the squish method on the String helpers.

str($paragraph)->squish();

After running it through squish you'll get all that extra stuff removed:

"hello this is a test just a test and stuff"

Under the hood here is what this method actually does:

/**
 * Remove all "extra" blank space from the given string.
 *
 * @param  string  $value
 * @return string
 */
public static function squish($value)
{
    return preg_replace('~(\s|\x{3164}|\x{1160})+~u', ' ', preg_replace('~^[\s\x{FEFF}]+|[\s\x{FEFF}]+$~u', '', $value));
}

Here is an explanation:

The first preg_replace removes leading and trailing white spaces or BOM characters.
The second preg_replace replaces one or more consecutive white spaces or special fillers with a single space.

This ensures that you get a string with no extra white spaces.

Prefer to see a video, here is a short Reel I made for the @laravelnews Instagram page covering this:

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The Laravel LangCountry is a localization package that provides automatic date formatting, language switching, and more. Defining language detection and configuration can be tedious, so this package can make it easier to support multiple locales and the following feature list:

A configurable set of supported languages and countries
Automatic detection based on the user's browser settings
Middleware to set the locale and country of the user
Optional language switcher UI component
Date/time helpers
Language helpers
Currency helpers
Store the user's preferred language in the database
And more...

The optional language switcher UI could be something that you present to users, or use a development tool to switch languages to test quickly:

The provided middleware is useful as it will automatically try to detect the user's language preference and country. You can provide a fallback locale, which the middleware will set if there is no match between language and country. Finally, the middleware will check if you have translations for the selected locale and set the Laravel application locale to the locale (if found).

Lastly, this package provides date, time, and language helpers that you might find useful:

// nl-NL will return "27-09-2023"
// en-US will return "09/27/2023"
// de-DE will return "27.09.2023"
LangCountry::dateNumbers($post->created_at);

// nl-NL will return "27 september"
// en-US will return "September 27th"
LangCountry::dateBirthday($user->date_of_birth);

// en-GB" will return "🇬🇧"
// nl-NL will return "🇳🇱"
LangCountry::emojiFlag();

There are many helpers in the package's official documentation, which you can use to find usage and installation instructions. This package requires Laravel 10 and at least PHP 8.1. The project does provide a specific version for older Laravel versions. You can also view the source code on GitHub.

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PrestaShop Live Update - October 2023

New Course: Turn Your Passion Into Impact by Building an Online Course

Not just another how-to guide

How online courses will transform your brand

Tailored to your needs

Empower, engage, excel

Are you ready to blaze a trail?

Building a Sitemap in your Laravel app with the Spatie Sitemap

Laravel Sitemap Auto Crawling

Laravel Sitemap Manual Set up

How we use Laravel Sitemap

More info

How to remove all extra spaces in a string with Laravel

LangCountry is a Localization Package for Laravel