dynamically create sitemap xml using php

Question

I have created sitemap for my site using some reference code in the below link

Creating an XML sitemap with PHP

But I am getting error as

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:

as my content is as follows

<< alt >> attribute and it says something like

< loc >http://www.example.com/700- & laquo;alt & raquo;-attributes-in-images.php< /loc >

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this error.

Dynamically isn't really a good tag name. It doesn't really add any value to the post. — Travis, Jun 13 '10 at 07:52
Hi, Still I haven't solved this..Anyone help me to solve this. — Rekha, Jun 15 '10 at 04:31
Please provide the code you use to generate the fragment that raises the error. — Gordon, Aug 20 '10 at 10:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '10 at 17:25

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I think you just have to use the urlencode() function on the link value and reconvert the entities before using html_entity_decode():

echo '<loc>'.urlencode(html_entity_decode($link)).'<loc>';

or something similar in your code.

answered Sep 08 '10 at 17:25

2ndkauboy

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 20:06

The best solution is to have access to you root folder and add to your Apache .htaccess file the following lines

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule sitemap\.xml sitemap.php [L]

and then simply having a file sitemap.php in your root folder that therefore would be normally accessible via http://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, the default URL where all search engines will firstly search.

That file sitemap.php shall start with

<?php header('Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8') ?>
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' ?>

I have this solution and it works like a charm :)

dynamically create sitemap xml using php

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