PHP Feed (Framework-Agnostic)

A modern, framework-agnostic PHP Feed generator for Laravel, Symfony, and any PHP project. Generate RSS and Atom feeds with full caching support and customizable views.

Features

• 🚀 Framework Agnostic: Works with Laravel, Symfony, or any PHP project
• 📡 Multiple Formats: RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 support
• ⚡ Caching: Built-in caching support with framework adapters
• 🎨 Custom Views: Use your own templates for feed generation
• 🔧 Dependency Injection: Clean architecture with adapter pattern
• ✅ 100% Test Coverage: Thoroughly tested with Pest
• 📋 PSR-12 Compliant: Follows modern PHP standards
• 🔒 Type Safe: Full PHP 8.3+ type declarations

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Composer

Installation

composer require rumenx/php-feed

Usage Examples

Laravel

Basic Usage:

use Rumenx\Feed\FeedFactory;

class FeedController extends Controller
{
    public function feed()
    {
        $feed = FeedFactory::create();
        $feed->setTitle('My Blog Feed');
        $feed->setDescription('Latest posts from my blog');
        $feed->setLink('https://example.com');
        
        $feed->addItem([
            'title' => 'First Post',
            'author' => 'Rumen',
            'link' => 'https://example.com/post/1',
            'pubdate' => now(),
            'description' => 'This is the first post.'
        ]);
        
        // Return XML string directly
        $xml = $feed->render('rss');
        return response($xml, 200, [
            'Content-Type' => 'application/xml'
        ]);
    }
}

Using Laravel Views (Optional):

For more control, you can use the included Blade templates:

use Rumenx\Feed\FeedFactory;

class FeedController extends Controller  
{
    public function feed()
    {
        $feed = FeedFactory::create();
        $feed->setTitle('My Blog Feed');
        $feed->addItem([
            'title' => 'First Post',
            'author' => 'Rumen', 
            'link' => 'https://example.com/post/1',
            'pubdate' => now(),
            'description' => 'This is the first post.'
        ]);
        
        // Get data for your own view template
        $items = $feed->getItems();
        $channel = [
            'title' => $feed->getTitle(),
            'description' => $feed->getDescription(),
            'link' => $feed->getLink()
        ];
        
        return response()->view('feed.rss', compact('items', 'channel'), 200, [
            'Content-Type' => 'application/xml'
        ]);
    }
}

Symfony

Basic Usage:

use Rumenx\Feed\FeedFactory;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class FeedController extends AbstractController
{
    public function feed(): Response
    {
        $feed = FeedFactory::create();
        $feed->setTitle('My Blog Feed');
        $feed->setDescription('Latest posts from my blog');
        $feed->setLink('https://example.com');
        
        $feed->addItem([
            'title' => 'First Post',
            'author' => 'Rumen',
            'link' => 'https://example.com/post/1',
            'pubdate' => new \DateTime(),
            'description' => 'This is the first post.'
        ]);
        
        // Return XML response
        $xml = $feed->render('atom');
        return new Response($xml, 200, ['Content-Type' => 'application/xml']);
    }
}

Using Symfony Views (Optional):

For more control, you can use Twig templates:

class FeedController extends AbstractController
{
    public function feed(): Response
    {
        $feed = FeedFactory::create();
        $feed->setTitle('My Blog Feed');
        $feed->addItem([
            'title' => 'First Post',
            'author' => 'Rumen',
            'link' => 'https://example.com/post/1',
            'pubdate' => new \DateTime(),
            'description' => 'This is the first post.'
        ]);
        
        // Get data for your own Twig template
        $items = $feed->getItems();
        $channel = [
            'title' => $feed->getTitle(),
            'description' => $feed->getDescription(),
            'link' => $feed->getLink()
        ];
        
        return $this->render('feed/atom.xml.twig', [
            'items' => $items,
            'channel' => $channel
        ], new Response('', 200, ['Content-Type' => 'application/xml']));
    }
}

Plain PHP / Other Frameworks

Simple Usage (Recommended):

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Rumenx\Feed\FeedFactory;

// Create feed with simple built-in adapters
$feed = FeedFactory::create();
$feed->setTitle('My Feed');
$feed->setDescription('Feed description');
$feed->setLink('https://example.com');

$feed->addItem([
    'title' => 'Hello World',
    'author' => 'Rumen',
    'link' => 'https://example.com/hello',
    'pubdate' => date('c'),
    'description' => 'Hello world post!'
]);

// Output RSS feed
header('Content-Type: application/xml');
echo $feed->render('rss');

Advanced - Custom Adapters:

You can provide your own implementations for cache, config, response, and view:

use Rumenx\Feed\Feed;

$feed = new Feed([
    'cache' => new MyCacheAdapter(),
    'config' => new MyConfigAdapter(),
    'response' => new MyResponseAdapter(),
    'view' => new MyViewAdapter(),
]);

$feed->setTitle('My Feed');
$feed->addItem([
    'title' => 'Hello',
    'author' => 'Rumen',
    'link' => 'https://example.com/hello',
    'pubdate' => date('c'),
    'description' => 'Hello world!'
]);

// Use render() for framework-specific response
// or render() for XML string in plain PHP
echo $feed->render('rss');

Development

Available Composer Scripts

# Run tests
composer test

# Run tests with coverage
composer test:coverage

# Run tests with HTML coverage report
composer test:coverage-html

# Watch tests (automatically re-run on file changes)
composer test:watch

# Static analysis with PHPStan
composer analyse

# Check code style (PSR-12)
composer style

# Fix code style automatically
composer style:fix

# Run all checks (tests + analysis + style)
composer check

# Run CI checks (coverage + analysis + style)
composer ci

API Reference

Factory Method

// Create feed with simple adapters (recommended for most users)
$feed = FeedFactory::create($config);

Core Methods

// Feed configuration
$feed->setTitle(string $title): self
$feed->setDescription(string $description): self
$feed->setLink(string $link): self
$feed->setDateFormat(string $format): self
$feed->setLanguage(string $language): self

// Item management
$feed->addItem(array $item): self
$feed->addItems(array $items): self

// Rendering
$feed->render(string $format = 'rss'): mixed // Returns framework-specific response or XML string

// Caching
$feed->isCached(string $key): bool
$feed->clearCache(string $key): self

Architecture

This package follows a clean architecture pattern with dependency injection:

• Feed: Core feed generator class
• Adapters: Framework-specific implementations
  • FeedCacheInterface: Caching operations
  • FeedConfigInterface: Configuration access
  • FeedResponseInterface: HTTP response handling
  • FeedViewInterface: Template rendering

Support This Project

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Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Security

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License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.

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