Laravel 5 Feeds

A simple Laravel 5 service provider for including the SimplePie library.

Installation

The Laravel 5 Feeds Service Provider can be installed via Composer by requiring the willvincent/feeds package in your project's composer.json.

{
    "require": {
        "willvincent/feeds": "1.0.*"
    }
}

Configuration

To use the Feeds Service Provider, you must register the provider when bootstrapping your Laravel application.

Find the providers key in your config/app.php and register the Service Provider.

    'providers' => [
        // ...
        willvincent\Feeds\FeedsServiceProvider::class,
    ],

Find the aliases key in your config/app.php and register the Facade.

    'aliases' => [
        // ...
        'Feeds'    => willvincent\Feeds\Facades\FeedsFacade::class,
    ],

Usage

Run php artisan vendor:publish to publish the default config file, edit caching setting withing the resulting config/feeds.php file as desired.

See SimplePie Documentation for full API usage documentation.

$feed = Feeds::make('http://feed/url/goes/here');

Note: In Laravel 5, Facades must either be prefixed with a backslash, or brought into scope with a use [facadeName] declaration.

Example controller method, and it's related view:

Controller:

  public function demo() {
    $feed = Feeds::make('http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom');
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

or Force to read unless content type not a valid RSS

  public function demo() {
    $feed = Feeds::make('http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom', true); // if RSS Feed has invalid mime types, force to read
    $data = array(
      'title'     => $feed->get_title(),
      'permalink' => $feed->get_permalink(),
      'items'     => $feed->get_items(),
    );

    return View::make('feed', $data);
  }

View:

@extends('app')

@section('content')
  <div class="header">
    <h1><a href="{{ $permalink }}">{{ $title }}</a></h1>
  </div>

  @foreach ($items as $item)
    <div class="item">
      <h2><a href="{{ $item->get_permalink() }}">{{ $item->get_title() }}</a></h2>
      <p>{{ $item->get_description() }}</p>
      <p><small>Posted on {{ $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a') }}</small></p>
    </div>
  @endforeach
@endsection