Hoping this is some kind of silly oversight on my part, but I've had little luck finding information about this or other examples of similar usages of Laravel. I'm developing a Laravel 4 site whose content is populated not with a local database, but with posts from a specific Tumblr blog, via the Tumblr API.
Every Tumblr post has a certain type associated with it ("text", "video", "photo", etc.), and each type has entirely different types of content that need to be spit out, so I have a Blade template for each post type, inheriting from a master post Blade template. (Everything is just a stub right now.)
To fill out the front page, in my controller I'm populating an array with those post views ($postViews). What is maddening is that if I loop through $postViews and echo out each individual view in the controller, it contains the proper content--all three views in the array show up on the final site inside their correct templates.
But when I send $postViews off to my welcome view, and then loop through $postViews inside THERE, it renders three instances of ONLY the first view of the array. I have no idea why.
Here's the relevant code. As you can see in the welcome template, I tried looping through $postViews in the welcome view both with native PHP and with the Laravel template syntax. They both exhibit the same behavior: showing only the first of the three posts, three times.
// controllers/HomeController.php
class HomeController extends BaseController {
public function showIndex()
{
$client = new Tumblr\API\Client(CONSUMERKEY, CONSUMERSECRET);
$tumblrData = (array) ($client->getBlogPosts(BLOGNAME));
$postViews = array();
foreach ($tumblrData['posts'] as $post) {
$post = (array) $post;
$type = TumblrParse::getPostType($post);
$postViews[] = View::make('tumblr.'.$type, array('post' => $post));
}
foreach ($postViews as $p){
echo $p;
// This works! It displays each post view properly before
// before rendering the welcome view, but I need them to
// be inside the welcome view in a specific place.
}
return View::make('home.welcome')->with('postViews', $postViews);
}
// views/home/welcome.blade.php
@extends('layouts.master')
@section('title')
@parent :: Welcome
@stop
@section('content')
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<?php
foreach($postViews as $p) {
echo $p; // Just outputs the first of the array three times
}
?>
@foreach($postViews as $p)
{{ $p }} // Just outputs the first of the array three times
@endforeach
@stop
// views/layouts/post.blade.php
<div class="post">
@yield('postcontent')
</div>
// views/tumblr/photo.blade.php
// Other post types have their own views: video.blade.php, text.blade.php, etc.
@extends('layouts.post')
@section('postcontent')
<h1>This is a photo post!</h1>
<?php var_dump($post); ?>
@stop
I really appreciate any help! I'm new to Laravel, which I'm sure is obvious. And for all I know, I'm doing something wrong in PHP generally rather than in Laravel specifically.
