Adding RSS to Your Site

Using this library https://packagist.org/packages/thujohn/rss

We simply install but using a forked version so it works with L5

    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
        "thujohn/rss": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
       {
          "type": "vcs",
          "url": "https://github.com/majortom731/rss-l4.git"
        }
    ],

composer update

And as they note in the docs

'providers' => array(
    'Thujohn\Rss\RssServiceProvider',
)

Now in my route I simply put

Route::get('feed', function() {
    $feed = Thujohn\Rss\RssFacade::feed('2.0', 'UTF-8');
    $feed->channel(array('title' => 'Incomings.io Blog and News', 'description' => 'Latest News and Blog postings for Incomings.io', 'link' => 'http://incomings.io/feed'));
    $blogs = Blog::all();
    foreach ($blogs as $blog){
        $feed->item(array('title' => $blog->title, 'description|cdata' => $blog->body, 'link' => 'http://incomings.io/blogs/' . $blog->id));
    }

    return Response::make($feed, 200, array('Content-Type' => 'text/xml'));
});

And nothing fancy here I just output my blog model. I could limit to the latest 10 or output the data better but for now.