[FIXED] How to add posts to homepage cakephp?

Issue

I'm new to cakephp. So I want to ask you, how to add posts to homepage. I created posts by this tutorial http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/getting-started.html#blog-tutorial

What should I do next?

I tried to google it, but nothing works.

Thanks.

home.ctp

<h1>Blog posts</h1>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Id</th>
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Created</th>
    </tr>

    <!-- Here is where we loop through our $posts array, printing out post info -->

    <?php foreach ($posts as $post): ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?php echo $post['Post']['id']; ?></td>
        <td>
            <?php echo $this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'],
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', $post['Post']['id'])); ?>
        </td>
        <td><?php echo $post['Post']['created']; ?></td>
    </tr>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    <?php unset($post); ?>
</table>

Solution

You have to redirect your homepage to the index() of PostsController.

Go to your routes.php file and change this line:

Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'));

for this one:

Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index'));

(assuming that your index() actually contain a list of all your posts)

Router::connect will catch when an user attempt to go to the url on the first parameter, and will redirect it to the action in the controller on the second parameter

Answered By - Roberto Maldonado

Answer Checked By - David Goodson (PHPFixing Volunteer)