Introduction

This extension provides classes and interfaces to implement feeds in different formats. You don't have to worry about the details of the feeds and how they are build, you only have to provide the data from your concrete model.

Example

New in version 0.5.0: Instead of implementing the FeedInterface like described below one can also extend from the \Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Entity\AbstractFeed abstract class which returns empty values for each getter method. One can override the necessary methods. This way, only the methods required for a specific feed format must be overridden which results in smaller feed implementation classes.

Let's start with an example to warm up.

EXT:your_extension/Classes/Feed/YourFeed.php

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace YourVender\YourExtension\Feed;

use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Attributes\Feed;
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Collection\Collection;
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Contract\FeedInterface;
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Contract\ImageInterface
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Entity\Author;
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Entity\Item;
use Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Format\FeedFormat;

#[Feed('/your-feed.atom', FeedFormat::ATOM)]
final class YourFeed implements FeedInterface
{
   public function getId(): string
   {
      return '';
   }

   public function getTitle(): string
   {
      return 'Your website title';
   }

   public function getDescription(): string
   {
      return 'Here comes the Atom feed for your website.';
   }

   public function getLink(): string
   {
      return 'https://example.com/';
   }

   public function getAuthors(): Collection
   {
      return (new Collection())
         ->add(new Author('Your Company'));
   }

   public function getDatePublished(): ?\DateTimeInterface
   {
      return null;
   }

   // If the method returns an implementation of the DateTimeInterface it is
   // also used for the "Last-Modified" header in the HTTP response.
   public function getDateModified(): ?\DateTimeInterface
   {
      return new \DateTimeImmutable();
   }

   public function getLastBuildDate(): ?\DateTimeInterface
   {
      return null;
   }

   public function getLanguage(): string
   {
      return 'en';
   }

   public function getCopyright(): string
   {
      return '';
   }

   public function getImage(): ?ImageInterface;
   {
      return new Image('https://example.com/fileadmin/your-logo.png');
   }

   public function getItems(): Collection
   {
      return (new Collection())->add(
         (new Item())
            ->setTitle('Another awesome article')
            ->setDateModified(new \DateTimeImmutable('2022-06-07T18:22:00+02:00'))
            ->setLink('https://example.com/another-awesome-article'),
         (new Item())
            ->setTitle('Some awesome article'),
            ->setDateModified(new \DateTimeImmutable('2022-02-20T20:06:00+01:00')),
            ->setLink('https://example.com/some-awesome-article'),
      );
   }
}

First, a class which provides the data for one or more feeds must implement the Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Contract\FeedInterface interface. This marks the class as a feed data provider and requires some methods to be implemented. Of course, you can use dependency injection to inject service classes, for example, a repository that provides the needed items.

To define under which URL a feed is available and which format should be used you have to provide at least one Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Attributes\Feed class attribute. As format a name of the Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Attributes\Feed enum is used which defines the according format.

The getItems() method returns a Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Collection\Collection`object of :any:`Brotkrueml\\FeedGenerator\\Entity\\Item entities (or to be precise of objects implementing the Brotkrueml\FeedGenerator\Contract\ItemInterface).

Note

Based on the FeedInterface the feed is automatically registered if autoconfigure is enabled in Configuration/Services.yaml. Alternatively, you can manually tag a feed:

EXT:your_extension/Configuration/Services.yaml

services:
   YourVender\YourExtension\Feed\YourFeed:
      tags:
         - name: tx_feed_generator.feed

Important

After adding a class which implements the FeedInterface or adjusting the class attributes the DI cache has to be flushed.

Note

Not all properties are used in every format. For example, the last build date of the feed is only available in an RSS feed and not in an Atom feed.

A list of all configured feeds is available in the Configuration module.