Sitemap for List output

awrench1 · Mar 25th 2019

Hello,

Is it possible to create a sitemap file for the output of list entries from a list detail setup?

I created a sitemap using the docs here https://docs.grabaperch.com/pe…-create-a-google-sitemap/but this doesn't output the list entries, just the list page itself.

Is there a way to add to the above or does it need to be done as a separate sitemap file?

Many thanks,

Alex

drewm · Mar 25th 2019

Yes, you could use an additional template and perch_content_custom() to output your items into your sitemap file.

awrench1 · Mar 25th 2019

Thanks Drew. So I have the following:

PHP

<?php
header('Content-type: application/xml');
include('perch/runtime.php');
perch_pages_navigation(array(
'template'=>'sitemap.html',
'flat'=>true
));
perch_content_custom('Listings', array(
'template'=>'listing_sitemap.html',
'flat'=>true
));
?>

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then I have the two template files:

First the sitemap.html

Code

<perch:before><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
</perch:before>
<url>
<loc>https://www.hellohighstreet.com<perch:pages id="pagePath" /></loc>
</url>
<perch:after>
</urlset>
</perch:after>

And second the custom one:

Code

<perch:before><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
</perch:before>
<url>
<loc>https://www.hellohighstreet.com/listing-details?s=<perch:content id="slug"/></loc>
</url>
<perch:after>
</urlset>
</perch:after>

The first works fine but it would appear that nothing is coming out for the custom one?

ellimondo · Mar 25th 2019

Hi

It looks like you're outputting the xml headers and closing tags twice. You will only need the perch:before in the first template. Drop the perch:after. Then close the url set in the page template.

awrench1 · Mar 25th 2019

Thanks Ellimondo, so I now have this working - I did as you said with the headers so the first sitemap.html has the opening tags - then the sitemap.php page has the closing tags. I also noticed that I had not included the page ref for the custom output and now that is in there it is outputting the listings so thats great.

So all appears to work except debugging gives me the following:

Code

Array
( [type] => 2 [message] => Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ../sitemap.php:2) [file] => ../perch/core/lib/PerchUtil.class.php [line] => 1415
)

All seems to work anyway but would be good to know for future what that error means?

EDIT: It would appear this was caused by a whitespace above the php call in the sitemap page