Sitemap Module

The sitemap module automatically outputs an XML sitemap for use with Google's Webmaster Tools and other similar services.

The sitemap is located at:

/sitemap.xml

It will map not only your site pages (via the Pages module), but also modules that support the PyroCMS sitemap protocol, such as the Blogs module.

Example

Create a sitemap for your custom module is very easy, you can do it with few lines of code.

Let's see how to create it in a custom module called "News" and assume that your DB table looks like this:

All you need to do to hook your module to the Sitemap module is create a new file in your controllers folder and named it "sitemap.php". This file will be call as soon as someone, user or crawler, will request the sitemap.xml file.

In the "sitemap.php" file you need to create a "xml" function that will get the entries from the news table and print it in xml.

Here you can find a complete example:

<?php defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Sitemap extends Public_Controller
{
    public function xml()
    {
        $this->load->model('news_m');

        //Get all the news in the DB
        $all_news = $this->news_m->get_all_news();

        $doc = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" />');

        //Fetch all the news
        foreach($all_news as $news)
        {
            $node = $doc->addChild('url');

            //This will create a link to the news usign the slug
            $loc = site_url('news/show/'.$news->slug);

            $node->addChild('loc', $loc);

            $node->addChild('lastmod', date(DATE_W3C, $news->created_on));

        }


        $this->output
            ->set_content_type('application/xml')
            ->set_output($doc->asXML());
    }
}