Basic Feed

Example

Route::get('feed', function(){

    // creating rss feed with our most recent 20 posts
    $posts = DB::table('posts')->orderBy('created', 'desc')->take(20)->get();

    $feed = Feed::make();

    // set your feed's title, description, link, pubdate and language
    $feed->title = 'Your title';
    $feed->description = 'Your description';
    $feed->logo = 'http://yoursite.tld/logo.jpg';
    $feed->link = URL::to('feed');
    $feed->setDateFormat('datetime'); // 'datetime', 'timestamp' or 'carbon'
    $feed->pubdate = $posts[0]->created;
    $feed->lang = 'en';
    $feed->setShortening(true); // true or false
    $feed->setTextLimit(100); // maximum length of description text

    foreach ($posts as $post)
    {
        // set item's title, author, url, pubdate, description and content
        $feed->add($post->title, $post->author, URL::to($post->slug), $post->created, $post->description, $post->content);
    }

    // show your feed (options: 'atom' (recommended) or 'rss')
    return $feed->render('atom');

    // show your feed with cache for 60 minutes
    // second param can be integer, carbon or datetime
    // optional: you can set custom cache key with 3rd param as string
    return $feed->render('atom', 60);

    // to return your feed as a string set second param to -1
    $xml = $feed->render('atom', -1);

});