#24: Added a basic sitemap.xml with the root gallery URL

app/Http/Controllers/Gallery/DefaultController.php

@@ -34,4 +34,29 @@ class DefaultController extends Controller
             'success' => $resetStatus
         ]);
     }
+
+    public function sitemapXml()
+    {
+        $xml = new \DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
+        $xml->preserveWhiteSpace = true;
+        $xml->formatOutput = true;
+
+        $root = $xml->createElementNS('http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9', 'urlset');
+        $xml->appendChild($root);
+
+        // Root URL
+        $this->createSitemapNode($xml, $root, route('home'));
+
+        return response($xml->saveXML(), 200, ['Content-Type' => 'text/xml']);
+    }
+
+    private function createSitemapNode(\DOMDocument $document, \DOMElement $parentElement, $url)
+    {
+        $urlElement = $document->createElement('url');
+        $urlLocElement = $document->createElement('loc', $url);
+        $urlElement->appendChild($urlLocElement);
+        $parentElement->appendChild($urlElement);
+
+        return $urlElement;
+    }
 }

routes/web.php

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Route::get('/', 'Gallery\DefaultController@index')->name('home');
 Route::get('/activate/{token}', 'Auth\ActivateController@activate')->name('auth.activate');
 Route::get('/password/change', 'Auth\ChangePasswordController@showChangePasswordForm')->name('auth.changePassword');
 Route::post('/password/change', 'Auth\ChangePasswordController@processChangePassword')->name('auth.processChangePassword');
+Route::get('/sitemap.xml', 'Gallery\DefaultController@sitemapXml');
 Route::get('a/{albumUrlAlias}', 'Gallery\AlbumController@index')
     ->name('viewAlbum')
     ->where('albumUrlAlias', '.*');