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The Sitemap plugin is a CakePHP wrapper around Cartographer library. It makes it very easy to generate sitemap. The Sitemap plugin can handle Sitemaps of more than 50,000 entries. Also it iterates over table records instead of retrieving all records at once.

Requirements

• PHP 5.4+
• CakePHP 3.0
• Cartographer Library (included as composer dependency)

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

composer require adnan0703/Sitemap

How to use it

For example if you want to generate sitemap of Posts model, you need to define sitemapQuery method in Posts table class and sitemapEntry virtual property in entity class of Posts model. The sitemapQuery method must return Query object and sitemapEntry must be an array containing at least url key.

With sitemapQuery method you can control records that will be added to sitemap and with sitemapEntry virtual property you can control properties of sitemap entry.

// in Posts table class
public function sitemapQuery()
{
	return $this->find()
		->select(['id', 'name'])
		->where(['published' => true]);
}

// in Posts entity class
protected function _getSitemapEntry() 
{
	return [
		'url' => $url, // required
		'changefreq' => 'weekly', // optional
		'priority' => '0.8', // optional
	];
}

Now we can generate sitemap of Posts model as shown in code below.

set_time_limit(60*10); // if you have lots of records
$models = ['Posts'];
$dirPath = WWW_ROOT . DS . 'sitemaps';
$sitemap = new \Adnan0703\Sitemap\Lib\Sitemap();
$mainSitemap = $sitemap->createSitemap(
	$dirPath, 
	'http://example.com/sitemaps/', 
	$models, 
	true
);
// $mainSitemap will be 'http://example.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml'

You can also add Pages controller urls and other urls in sitemap.

Configure::write('Sitemap.pages', [
	[
		'url' => Router::url(['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'home'], true), 
		'priority' => '0.9', 
		'changefreq' => 'daily'
	],
	[
		'url' => Router::url(['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'about_us'], true), 
		'priority' => '0.9', 
		'changefreq' => 'daily'
	],
]);

Configuration Options

Sitemap plugin has two configuration options. Sitemap.pages and Sitemap.findLimit. Sitemap.pages option has been explained above. With Sitemap.findLimit you can limit the number of records Sitemap retrieves at a time while iterating over table.

Configure::write('Sitemap.findLimit', 600);

Support

For bugs and feature requests, please use the issues section of this repository.

Contributing to this Plugin

Please feel free to contribute to the plugin with new issues, requests, unit tests and code fixes or new features.

License

Copyright 2015, Adnan Aslam

Licensed under The MIT License Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.