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Generate Dynamic Sitemap With PHP Without Database

Generating a sitemap for your website is an important aspect of search engine optimization. It helps search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to index your website's content more efficiently. Having a sitemap ensures that all of the pages on your website are properly crawled and indexed. In this post, we will discuss how to generate a dynamic sitemap using PHP without a database

Create Dynamic Sitemap Using PHP

A sitemap is a file that contains a list of all the pages on your website. The sitemap helps search engines to navigate your website and index its pages. A dynamic sitemap is a sitemap that is generated automatically based on the content of your website. A dynamic sitemap is useful when you have a large website or when you frequently add new content to your website. To generate a dynamic sitemap, we will use PHP. PHP is a server-side scripting language that can be used to generate HTML, XML, and other types of files. We will use PHP to generate an XML sitemap file.

Code To Generate Sitemap Using PHP

<?php
  header('Content-type: application/xml');
  $baseurl = "https://www.narendradwivedi.org/"; // Enter Your URL

  // NarendraDwivedi.Org

  $output = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "\n";
  $output .= '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">' . "\n";
  echo $output;

  $path="./";

  $files=opendir($path);

  if ($files) {
    while (($file_name=readdir($files)) !==FALSE) {
      if ($file_name !="." && !(is_dir($file_name))) {
        $file_name_new = $file_name;
        $file_last_modified = filemtime($path.$file_name);

        echo "<url>";
        echo '<loc>'.$baseurl.$file_name_new.'</loc>';
        echo '<lastmod>'. date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", $file_last_modified).'</lastmod>';
        echo '</url>';
      }
    }
  }

  echo "</urlset>";
?>

In this code , the sitemap.php will generate sitemap of all the files (not folder) exist in same directory in which sitemap.php exist.

PHP Code To Dynamically Generate Sitemap Of Files Existing In Other Folder

To include files of a specific folder , change the $path value with the folder and change the $baseurl with $baseurl.$path . For example $path="myfolder/"

Complete Code

<?php
  header('Content-type: application/xml');
  $baseurl = "https://www.narendradwivedi.org/"; // Enter Your URL


  // NarendraDwivedi.Org

  $output = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "\n";
  $output .= '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">' . "\n";
  echo $output;

  $path="myfolder/";
  $baseurl=$baseurl.$path;

  $files=opendir($path);

  if ($files) {
    while (($file_name=readdir($files)) !==FALSE) {
      if ($file_name !="." && !(is_dir($file_name))) {
        $file_name_new = $file_name;
        $file_last_modified = filemtime($path.$file_name);

        echo "<url>";
        echo '<loc>'.$baseurl.$file_name_new.'</loc>';
        echo '<lastmod>'. date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", $file_last_modified).'</lastmod>';
        echo '</url>';
      }
    }
  }

  echo "</urlset>";
?>

Conclusion

In this way , we can create sitemap for all the files which exists on our server

FAQ

How to generate dynamic sitemap with php

To generate dynamic sitemap with php , you can create a php page which generate xml code including all the pages exists on server

Can we create dynamic sitemap without php

Yes , we can create sitemap using php without using database like mysql

Which timezone is used in this code

We have used Z (zulu) timezone. You can use any other timezone according to your need

3 comments

  1. hello thank you for this useful information sir i have question only we put are main url only . all other url generate automatically. and after where should these file submit in c-pannel .please guide .thank you
    • Generate sitemap for each url if you have multiple url. To submit this sitemap , use Google search console
  2. yes i need this .thank you so much