I'm trying to learn CakePHP for the first time (I usually just straight code PHP), and I'm starting with the 'official' Blog Tutorial they host: http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/en/The-Manual/Tutorials-Examples/Blog.html
So far, I've setup a virtual host (on OS X 10.8.2), and used CakePHP's default index page to make sure it's reading from the database correctly, the app/tmp folder is recursively writeable for Apache, etc.
I run into issues when I try to follow the blog right after the initial Posts View is setup, and it says you can now view the posts at (adjusting 'www.example.com' to my local ServerName) 'cakeblog/posts/index'. I'm pretty sure I'm having some kind of mod_rewrite issue, but I can't figure out what. My Apache error logs for whenever this happens are:
[Thu Feb 14 09:18:10 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Users/bailey/Sites/cakeblog/posts
[Thu Feb 14 09:18:10 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Users/bailey/Sites/cakeblog/favicon.ico
I know the favicon exists in my webroot folder at /Users/bailey/Sites/cascade/extranet-cake/app/webroot. If I'm understanding the routing right, cakeblog/posts/index should be the controller for Post PostsController, and /index should be the action/method in PostsController "index()". So it seems to not be recognizing the Controller?
The code I have setup following the blog tutorial is:
(app/Model/Post.php):
<?php
/*
Model: represents a data model (object).
Examples -> a blog, a post, a comment on a post
*/
class Post extends AppModel
{
}
?>
(app/Controller/PostsController.php):
<?php
/*
Plays with Posts Model and gets work done.
- function "foo()" means that the function is accessed by
going to DOMAIN/posts/foo
*/
class PostsController extends AppController
{
public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
// An action!
// www.example.com/posts/index => listing of all posts
/*
Sets the view variable called ‘posts’ equal to the return
value of the find('all') method of the Post model.
*/
public function index()
{
$this->set('posts', $this->Post->find('all'));
}
}
?>
(app/View/Posts/index.ctp):
<!-- /app/View/Posts/index.ctp -->
<h2> Blog Posts </h2>
<table>
<tr>
<th> ID </th>
<th> Title </th>
<th> Date Created </th>
</tr>
<!-- Output the actual posts -->
<?php
foreach ($posts as $post)
{
/* Data ~ $post[ModelName][VariableName] */
$id = $post['Post']['id'];
/*
"$this->Html" ~ a Helper
link() generates an HTML link with given title and URL
*/
$titleLink =
$this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'],
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', $post['Post']['id']));
$dateCreated = $post['Post']['created'];
$out = "<tr>
<td>$id</td>
<td>
$titleLink
</td>
<td>$dateCreated</td>
</tr>";
echo $out;
}
unset($post);
?>
</table>
This is the first time I've really seen CakePHP and I can't find solutions in any of the other posts, except circumstantial reasons to suspect a mod_rewrite issue. Anyone have ideas on what I'm missing? I can post my httpd.conf file, too, upon request.
RewriteBase cakeblog/
to the .htaccess file under webroot. – jeremyharris.htaccess
files needed for the URL rewrite? – Alvaro