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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are a great way to share content and updates from your Laravel 10 application with users and external services. This tutorial will walk you through the process of building an RSS feed in Laravel 10.

Laravel 10 makes it simple to produce and serve RSS feeds, making it simple to keep users and subscribers up to speed on the newest information or updates on your website.

Here, we will consider some fake posts and create a rss feed of posts.

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Database & Connect

To create a database, either we can create via Manual tool of PhpMyadmin or by means of a mysql command.

CREATE DATABASE laravel_app;

To connect database with application, Open .env file from application root. Search for DB_ and update your details.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Setup Model & Migration

Open project into terminal and run this command.

$ php artisan make:model Post -m

This command will create two files.

A model file Post.php inside /app/Models folder.
A migration file 2023_08_21_031111_create_posts_table.php inside /database/migrations folder.

Open xxx_create_posts_table.php migration file and write this code into it.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     */
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('title');
            $table->string('slug');
            $table->text('body');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     */
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('posts');
    }
};

Run Migration

Back to project terminal and run this command,

$ php artisan migrate

It will run all migrations and create their respective tables.

Open Post.php model file from /app/Models folder.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $fillable = [
        'title', 'slug', 'body'
    ];
}

Next,

Setup Post Factory (Test Data)

Open project terminal and run this command.

$ php artisan make:factory PostFactory

It will create a file PostFactory.php file inside /database/factories folder.

Open file and write this complete code into it.

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Post>
 */
class PostFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition(): array
    {
        return [
            'title' => $this->faker->text(),
            'slug' => Str::slug($this->faker->text()),
            'body' => $this->faker->paragraph()
        ];
    }
}

Process of Data Seeding (Run Factory File)

Back to project terminal and execute these commands –

$ php artisan tinker

It will open tinker shell.

Next, run this command to create 50 fake rows for posts table.

>>> App\Models\Post::factory()->count(50)->create();

Create Controller

Back to terminal and run this artisan command,

$ php artisan make:controller RSSController

It will create RSSController.php file inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Post;

class RSSController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $posts = Post::latest()->get();

        return response()->view('rss', [
            'posts' => $posts
        ])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
    }
}

Create Template File

Create a file rss.blade.php inside /resources/views folder.

Open file and write this code into it.

<?=
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . PHP_EOL ?>
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>
            <![CDATA[ your-website.com ]]>
        </title>
        <link>
        <![CDATA[ https://your-website.com/feed ]]>
        </link>
        <description>
            <![CDATA[ Best Blog for Programming Articles ]]>
        </description>
        <language>en</language>
        <pubDate>{{ now() }}</pubDate>

        @foreach ($posts as $post)
        <item>
            <title>
                <![CDATA[{{ $post->title }}]]>
            </title>
            <link>{{ $post->slug }}</link>
            <description>
                <![CDATA[{!! $post->body !!}]]>
            </description>
            <category>{{ $post->category }}</category>
            <author>
                <![CDATA[Sanjay Kumar]]>
            </author>
            <guid>{{ $post->id }}</guid>
            <pubDate>{{ $post->created_at->toRssString() }}</pubDate>
        </item>
        @endforeach
    </channel>
</rss>

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add this given route into it.

//..

use App\Http\Controllers\RSSFeedController;

Route::get('feed', [RSSFeedController::class, 'index']);

//..

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/feed

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