Sitemap

This recipe walks you through creating a product sitemap feed using Laravel Feeds. You will: - Generate the necessary classes - Implement the feed logic - Expose the files via the file system - Optionally reference the generated sitemap from a root sitemap.xml file

Create the files

Generate the feed and its item class using the following console command:

php artisan make:feed Sitemaps/Product -t

Populate the feed

Implement the feed root element, attributes, query builder, output filename, and item mapping as shown below:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Feeds\Sitemaps;

use App\Feeds\Sitemaps\Items\ProductFeedItem;
use App\Models\Product;
use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Data\ElementData;
use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Feeds\Feed;
use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Feeds\Items\FeedItem;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class ProductFeed extends Feed
{
    protected string $name = 'urlset';

    protected array $attributes = [
        'xmlns'       => 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9',
        'xmlns:xhtml' => 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml',
        'xmlns:image' => 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1',
        'xmlns:video' => 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1',
        'xmlns:news'  => 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9',
    ];

    public function builder(): Builder
    {
        return Product::query();
    }

    public function root(): ElementData
    {
        return new ElementData(
            name      : $this->name,
            attributes: $this->attributes,
        );
    }

    public function item(Model $model): FeedItem
    {
        return new ProductFeedItem($model);
    }

    public function filename(): string
    {
        return 'sitemaps/products.xml';
    }
}

Populate the feed item

Define the XML element name and map your model’s properties to the corresponding sitemap tags:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Feeds\Sitemaps\Items;

use DragonCode\LaravelFeed\Feeds\Items\FeedItem;

use function route;

/** @property-read \App\Models\Product $model */
class ProductFeedItem extends FeedItem
{
    public function name(): string
    {
        return 'url';
    }

    public function toArray(): array
    {
        return [
            'loc' => route('products.show', $this->model->slug),

            'lastmod' => $this->model->updated_at,

            'priority' => 0.9,
        ];
    }
}

Activate

Review the generated operation or migration file, then run the appropriate console command:

        # For Laravel Deploy Operations
        php artisan operations

        # For Laravel Migrations
        php artisan migrate
        

Links

Add a file system disk that points to the directory containing your sitemaps in the config/filesystems.php configuration file:

return [
    'links' => [
        public_path('storage')  => storage_path('app/public'),
        public_path('sitemaps') => storage_path('app/public/sitemaps'),
    ],
];

Then create the public symlink so the files are accessible in a browser:

php artisan storage:link

Generate feed

Generate the feed by running the following console command:

php artisan feed:generate

Add a link to the root sitemap.xml

If you maintain a root sitemap.xml file that references other sitemaps, add an entry like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
        <loc>https://example.com/sitemaps/products.xml</loc>
    </sitemap>
    <sitemap>
        <loc>https://example.com/sitemaps/other-sitemaps.xml</loc>
    </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Result

The generated sitemap.xml for your products will look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">

<url>
  <loc>https://example.com/products/quidem-tempore-nulla-repudiandae-vero</loc>
  <lastmod>2025-09-04T04:08:12+00:00</lastmod>
  <priority>0.9</priority>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>https://example.com/products/laudantium-porro-qui-rerum-incidunt-expedita</loc>
  <lastmod>2025-09-04T04:08:12+00:00</lastmod>
  <priority>0.9</priority>
</url>

</urlset>

05 September 2025