Zend framework generate sitemap

How to adding an automatically-generated sitemap.xml to a Zend Framework site?

It's really simple.

Now i will show you how to dynamically create a Google sitemap.xml file for your Zend Framework site. It assumes that you are using Zend_Navigation to describe the basic layout of your site. It also assumes that the application is based on Zend_Application and uses Zend_Layout.

First, we need to create the controller class used to field the request for the sitemap. This is called SitemapController and is located in controllers/SitemapController.php. The class has the following skeleton:

class SitemapController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
  // TODO: Implement the class action handlers here
}

The first action is the index action, which is handled by the follow method of the class: </>

public function indexAction()
{
  $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
}

This disable the standard layout, so that only the XML of the sitemap is rendered.

The accompanying view script file is application/views/scripts/sitemap/index.phtml and contains the following code:

<?php
$this->navigation()->sitemap()->setFormatOutput(true); 
echo $this->navigation()->sitemap();

That's all.

Date: 2012-01-16 08:14:38 and last modified: 2012-01-16 08:15:16