Creating multiple Sitemaps in PHP

Question

i have following problem, i generated the urls for the sitemap, in a array. So the array has 60000 entries. And google wants me to create 2 sitemaps cause the limit is 50000 ent

Answer 1

$count_array = count($data);
$i = 0;

foreach ($data as $entry) {
    if ($i == 0) {
        // code here to start first file
    } else if ($i % 50000 == 0) {
        // code here to end previous file and start next file
    }

    // write entry to current file
    // insert code here....

    // increment counter
    $i++;
}

// code here to end last file

Answer 2

array_chunk is your friend:

$data = array_chunk($data, 50000);

foreach ($data as $key => $value)
{
    $cfile = 'sitemap_' . $i  . '.xml';
    $createfile = fopen($cfile, 'w');

    fwrite($createfile, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n");
    fwrite($createfile, "<urlset xmlns=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9\"\n");
    fwrite($createfile, "xmlns:image=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1\"\n");
    fwrite($createfile, "xmlns:video=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1\">\n");

    foreach ($value as $url)
    {
        $creat = "<url>\n";
        $creat .= "<loc>" . $url . "</loc>\n";
        $creat .= "<priority>1.00</priority>\n";
        $creat .= "</url>\n";

        fwrite($createfile, $creat);
    }

    fclose($createfile);
}

Works with a variable number of sitemaps out of the box.