view content from Controller and view on a separate controller and view

Question

I have a

Controller/PostsController.php
Model/Post.php
View/Posts/Index.ctp

if anyone has followed the cakephp blog tutorial i have completed that. Anyone who hasnt, its basically a site that lets you add a title and a comment. Much like a forum.

Now i have this set up , but i want to include a new page called home. And on this page i wont to display the forum i created but in a smaller container.

I am unsure how to add the view of Posts to a new controller/model/view.

This is PostsController.php:

class PostsController extends AppController {


public function index() {
    $this->set('posts', $this->Post->find('all'));
}

}

This is View/Posts/index.ctp

    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>Id</th>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th>Actions</th>
            <th>Created</th>
        </tr>

    <!-- Here's 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']
                      );
                  ?>
              </td>


              <td>
                  <?php echo $post['Post']['created']; ?>
              </td>
          </tr>
          <?php endforeach; ?>

        </table>

so with this, how do i get the same posts to include on a new controller and view, lets say:

HomesController.php View/Homes/index.ctp

EDIT//EDIT//EDIT

right i have managed to do half of this now by adding $this->render('/Abouts/index'); to my PostsController

but now i get an error saying "Undefined variable: posts [APP\View\Abouts\index.ctp, line 12]"

im not sure how to define these in my abouts view

because i have a post page with them on, but on another page somewhere else i wont to be able to display them in a small container, and then i can write some of my own code to show maybe the top 3 recent ones, or what ever. Im new to cakephp so im unsure how to do this — matthew smart

Dave Dave · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-18T19:59:39

In the 'abouts' action, you'd do the same thing you were doing in the index:

$this->set('posts', $this->Post->find('all'));

Site note: Seems like it would be worth your time to go through the blog tutorial again for a refresher. I believe this kind of thing is covered pretty thoroughly.

view content from Controller and view on a separate controller and view

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