RssAtomBundle is a Bundle for Symfony 2 made to easily access and deliver RSS / Atom feeds. It features:

• Detection of the feed format (RSS / Atom)
• A generic StreamController built to write all your feeds. This controller is able to send a 304 HTTP Code if the feed didn't change since the last visit
• HTTP Headers support when reading feeds in order to save network traffic
• Content filtering to fetch only the newest items
• multiple feeds writing
• Ability to use doctrine as a data source

All classes are heavily tested using PHPUnit.

As a Symfony 2 Bundle, RssAtomBundle must be installed using Composer. If you do not know Composer, please refer to its website: http://getcomposer.org/

This is the most common way if you want to add RssAtomBundle into an existing project. Edit composer.json and add the following line in the "require" section:

"debril/rss-atom-bundle": "~1.3"

then, ask Composer to install it:

composer.phar update debril/rss-atom-bundle

finally, edit your app/AppKernel.php to register the bundle in the registerBundles() method as above:

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{

    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            new Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\FrameworkBundle(),
            // ...
            // register the bundle here
            new Debril\RssAtomBundle\DebrilRssAtomBundle(),

If you are already using rss-atom-bundle, beware that the 1.2.0 version breaks some backward compatibility. If you do not need the improvements provided by the 1.2.0 version, please edit composer.json as below :

"debril/rss-atom-bundle": "~1.1, <1.2"

The migration process is described in the migrations section

Do this if you want to contribute (and you're welcome to do so):

git clone https://github.com/alexdebril/rss-atom-bundle.git

composer.phar install --dev

You can run the unit test suites using the following command in the Bundle's source director:

bin/phpunit

rss-atom-bundle is designed to read feeds across the internet and to publish your own. It provides two sets of interfaces, each one being dedicated to feed's consuming or publishing :

• FeedIn & ItemIn are used for feed reading.
• FeedOut & ItemOut are used for feed publishing.

To read a feed you need to use the debril.reader service which provides two methods for that : getFeedContent() and readFeed(). This service is based upon the FeedReader class.

getFeedContent() is designed to give a brand new FeedContent instance or any object of your own, as long as it implements the FeedIn interface. It takes two arguments :

• $url : URL of the RSS/Atom feed you want to read (eg: http://php.net/feed.atom)
• $date : the last time you read this feed. This is useful to fetch only the articles which were published after your last hit.

Wherever you have access to the service container :

<?php
    // fetch the FeedReader
    $reader = $this->container->get('debril.reader');

    // this date is used to fetch only the latest items
    $date = new \DateTime($unmodifiedSince);

    // the feed you want to read
    $url = 'http://host.tld/feed';

    // now fetch its (fresh) content
    $feed = $reader->getFeedContent($url, $date);

    // the $content object contains as many Item instances as you have fresh articles in the feed
    $items = $feed->getItems();
?>

getFeedContent() fetches the feed hosted at $url and removes items prior to $date. If it is the first time you read this feed, then you must specify a date far enough in the past to keep all the items. This method does not loop until the $date is reached, it justs performs one hit and filters the response to keep only the fresh articles.

If you need more information, please visit the Reading Feeds section on the wiki

RssAtomBundle offers the ability to provide RSS/Atom feeds. The route will match the following pattern : /{format}/{contentId}

• {format} must be "rss" or "atom" (or whatever you want if you add the good routing rule in routing.yml)
• {contentId} is an optional argument. Use it you have several feeds

The request will be handled by StreamController, according to the following steps :

• 1 : grabs the ModifiedSince header if it exists
• 2 : creates an Options instance holding the request's parameters (contentId if it exists)
• 3 : gets the provider defined in services.xml and calls the getFeedContent(Options $options) method
• 4 : compare the feed's LastModified property with the ModifiedSince header
• 5 : if LastModified is prior or equal to ModifiedSince then the response contains only a "NotModified" header and the 304 code. Otherwise, the stream is built and sent to the client

StreamController expects the getFeedContent()'s return value to be a FeedOut instance. It can be a Debril\RssAtomBundle\Protocol\Parser\FeedContent or a class you wrote and if so, your class MUST implement the FeedOut interface.

<?php
interface FeedOut
{

    /**
     * Atom : feed.updated <feed><updated>
     * Rss  : rss.channel.lastBuildDate <rss><channel><lastBuildDate>
     * @return \DateTime
     */
    public function getLastModified();

    /**
     * Atom : feed.title <feed><title>
     * Rss  : rss.channel.title <rss><channel><title>
     * @return string
     */
    public function getTitle();

    // Full source can be read in the repository .......
?>

Now, how to plug the StreamController with the provider of your choice ? The easiest way is to override the debril.provider.default service with your own in services.xml :

<service id="debril.provider.default" class="Namespace\Of\Your\Class">
    <argument type="service" id="doctrine" />
</service>

Your class just needs to implement the FeedContentProvider interface :

interface FeedContentProvider
{
    /**
     * @param \Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver $params
     * @return \Debril\RssAtomBundle\Protocol\FeedOut
     * @throws \Debril\RssAtomBundle\Protocol\FeedNotFoundException
     */
    public function getFeedContent(Options $options);
}

If the reclaimed feed does not exist, you just need to throw a FeedNotFoundException to make the StreamController answer with a 404 error. Otherwise, getFeedContent(Options $options) must return a FeedContent instance, which will return an array of Item objects through getItems(). Then, the controller uses a FeedFormatter object to properly turn your FeedContent object into a XML stream.

More information on the FeedContentProvider interface and how to interface rss-atom-bundle directly with doctrine can be found in the Providing Feeds section

The HTTP cache handling can be annoying during development process, you can skip it through configuration in your app/config/parameters.yml file :

parameters:
    force_refresh:     true

This way, the StreamController will always display your feed's content and return a 200 HTTP code.

Need to keep the existing routes and add one mapped to a different FeedProvider ? add it own in your routing file :

    <route id="your_route_name" pattern="/your/route/{contentId}">
        <default key="_controller">DebrilRssAtomBundle:Stream:index</default>
        <default key="format">rss</default>
        <default key="source">your.provider.service</default>
    </route>

The source parameter must contain a valid service name defined in your application.

• Alex Debril
• Elnur Abdurrakhimov https://github.com/elnur
• matdev https://github.com/matdev