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thujohn/rss
===========

RSS builder for Laravel 4

1.0.3(11y ago)72130.0k↑112.5%17[3 PRs](https://github.com/thujohn/rss-l4/pulls)3MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Apr 7Pushed 10y ago6 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/thujohn/rss-l4)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/thujohn/rss)[ RSS](/packages/thujohn-rss/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

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RSS
===

[](#rss)

RSS builder for Laravel 4

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7ecae24b2b1a298953e5e161bc47c794adcc0deb4c37f3c9c1ff13f63260eb52/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7468756a6f686e2f7273732d6c342e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/thujohn/rss-l4)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Add `thujohn/rss` to `composer.json`.

```
"thujohn/rss": "~1.0"

```

Run `composer update` to pull down the latest version of RSS.

Now open up `app/config/app.php` and add the service provider to your `providers` array.

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

```

Now add the alias.

```
'aliases' => array(
    'Rss' => 'Thujohn\Rss\RssFacade',
)

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Returns the feed

```
Route::get('/', function()
{
	$feed = Rss::feed('2.0', 'UTF-8');
	$feed->channel(array('title' => 'Channel\'s title', 'description' => 'Channel\'s description', 'link' => 'http://www.test.com/'));
	for ($i=1; $iitem(array('title' => 'Item '.$i, 'description|cdata' => 'Description '.$i, 'link' => 'http://www.test.com/article-'.$i));
	}

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

```

Save the feed

```
Route::get('/', function()
{
	$feed = Rss::feed('2.0', 'UTF-8');
	$feed->channel(array('title' => 'Channel\'s title', 'description' => 'Channel\'s description', 'link' => 'http://www.test.com/'));
	for ($i=1; $iitem(array('title' => 'Item '.$i, 'description|cdata' => 'Description '.$i, 'link' => 'http://www.test.com/article-'.$i));
	}

	$feed->save('test.xml');
});

```

###  Health Score

40

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity44

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community24

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~130 days

Total

3

Last Release

4165d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/07ffecefd3c4a8243b696afb7905cdefc5bcc41dde71fd4ca85f64b38b0dc6ee?d=identicon)[thujohn](/maintainers/thujohn)

---

Top Contributors

[![thujohn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/580699?v=4)](https://github.com/thujohn "thujohn (20 commits)")[![GrahamCampbell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2829600?v=4)](https://github.com/GrahamCampbell "GrahamCampbell (4 commits)")[![lucasmichot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/513603?v=4)](https://github.com/lucasmichot "lucasmichot (3 commits)")[![cossou](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1337112?v=4)](https://github.com/cossou "cossou (2 commits)")[![Nyholm](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1275206?v=4)](https://github.com/Nyholm "Nyholm (1 commits)")

---

Tags

laravelrsslaravel4

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/thujohn-rss/health.svg)

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```

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