This PHP tutorial helps to create a dynamic XML sitemap generator using PHP. We’ll create a php script that helps to generate a website sitemap in xml format.
A sitemap is a mapping file that contains information about the URLs of the site’s pages and other necessary details.
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.
A sitemap, in its most basic form, is an XML file that contains a list of the URLs for a website along with additional metadata for each URL.? You can get more information for here.
For your website, make a legitimate sitemap and submit it to Google. It will aid its bots in indexing the site and achieving high rankings.
There is a number of online free and paid tools available to generate XML sitemap for your website.
Sitemap creation can be done online using the XML-Sitemaps Generator. It generates the best format for posting to search engines like Google, Bing, and others.
I am using a PHP libs to generate an XML sitemap for a website.
The XML sitemap is generated using the specified configuration parameters by an object-based PHP script. This is an open-source sitemap generator libs that automate creating a sitemap for Google crawling.
// , # , ?) and moreLet’s discuss generating sitemaps for a website.
Simply download the sitemap config and sitemap generator and add them to your project to install this script (same directory).
After installing the script you can use the script by including it into your script
include "/path/to/sitemap-generator.php";
Let’s create an instance of the class by calling the constructor. We’ll pass the config file as a parameter that’ll have sitemap configurable params like URL, file save location, date format, etc.
$config = include("sitemap-config.php");
$smg = new SitemapGenerator($config);
// Run the generator
$smg->GenerateSitemap(); We have created a folder /test-xml and exported libs here and created an index.php file. We’ll add the below code into this file.
<?php
include "sitemap-generator.php";
$config = include("sitemap-config.php");
$smg = new SitemapGenerator($config);
// Run the generator
$smg->GenerateSitemap();
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Where can I download the sitemap-generator.php file?
I have added url
sorry but where is the "sitemap-config.php" file located? I mean in the generator folder there is no such file.
Sorry, My mistake, found it, had opened another link as well and didn't realize
It only generates 1 entry
never indexes anything
You need to update - SITE_URL in sitemap-config.php file