I'm trying to help with issue #80. Adding googlenews array as last parameter in $sitemap->add method, you can configure values as google indicates. Also, you can use $sitemap->render('google-news') and $sitemap->store('google-news') for create google news sitemaps.

Hi, I added cache support for sitemap.

Here is how it works:

We have 2 methods to configure it:

• configuration file
• via method setCache (this method has priority over configuration file, so we can override it if we needed to)

When cache is enabled it checks for items in cache, if no items found it adds current items to cache,

I moved all the variables to a separate file called Model to have better organized code.

Also you may notice that I have added Carbon dependency to composer.json because I am using it for converting cache duration int value to time stamp.

Hello Roumen,

We need the annotation in the sitemap extension of google-news for the SEO purpose.

An example of sitemap generated with the type of google-news:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20160608/20160608162912000610941.shtml</loc>
    <lastmod>2016-04-14T12:13:32+08:00</lastmod>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.cnyes.com/news/id/2025534" />
    <news:news>
      <news:publication>
        <news:name>鉅亨網</news:name>
        <news:language>zh-tw</news:language>
      </news:publication>
      <news:publication_date>2016-06-08T00:30:24+08:00</news:publication_date>
      <news:title><![CDATA[安泰銀配發現金股利0.6元 連續6年發股利]]></news:title>
        <news:keywords><![CDATA[]]></news:keywords>
    </news:news>
  </url>
</urlset>

Reference: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls#annotation-in-the-html

Next exception 'ErrorException' with message 'Undefined index: caption (View: ../vendor/roumen/sitemap/src/views/xml.blade.php)'

Solution, that I found: In file roumen/sitemap/src/views/xml.blade.php:36

Change

echo "\t\t\t" . 'image:caption' . $image['caption'] . '/image:caption' . "\n";

To

if (isset($image['caption'])) echo "\t\t\t" . 'image:caption' . $image['caption'] . '/image:caption' . "\n";

The service provider uses a ‘singleton closure’ approach and shares a single closure (and a single instance of the class) across the whole application. Since that class provides no way to remove data from its internal storage, each new sitemap file was including the data of all the previous files as well as its own data, leading to gigantic (incorrect) files and huge hardware resource consumption.

To make it work properly, the service provider has to be modified to use classic closure binding instead of a shared closure, so that each resolution from the IoC container creates a new instance of the class.

Two small fixes for store method to be compatible with Laravel 4. Required some refactoring to avoid code duplication.

My first attempt at a pull request on here, so let me know if there are any issues.

Thanks and keep up the good work. :+1:

I've modified the readme file to fit laravel 5.5.

In laravel 5.5 - thanks to the package auto-discovery - you don't need to register the service provider manually. I have seen that you are using the package auto discovery in your composer.json file.

Have a nice day, Jordan

Hello Roumen,

We need the attribute of last modified time in the sitemap extension of google-news.

Here is an example of Google News Sitemaps: http://docs.escenic.com/seo-guide/1.1/google_news_sitemaps.html

hi Roumen,

There is a minor issue in my case. As my expected there are 50,000 articles in each sitemap file.

If I get 50,000 news items from database and my maximum size define as 50,000 in config file.

it will not get into the logic below and not store sitemap file successfully.

if ($this->model->getMaxSize() > 0 && count($this->model->getItems()) > $this->model->getMaxSize())

so, I sent a pull request to fix this issue.

Thanks for your useful package to generate sitemap!

Fixed Fail to render xml when use sub-directory URI (E.g http://domain.com/public/sitemap) with error

• Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

This PR aims to set the correct @return tag of the render() method and the @param tag of setCache().

Currently they're both wrong because they point to a wrong or not imported namespace, and, because of this, PHPStan and other static analysis tools report several wrong return types.

This is an awesome package and very useful. I create a one-video tutorial of this package. please add it in the doc. so, it helps to peoples. Thanks for this great package for the community.