Dyanmic url in laravel - php

Question

I am a beginner in laravel so please excuse me if this is a simple question
I am trying to pass a db variable through my url so e.g blog?=category
It displays all results but when i change the url to blog/category1 it doesn't display anything.
DB Fields:id,category, name
1 category1 test
This is in my routes:
Route::get( '/blog', 'BlogController#index' );
Route::get('/', 'HomeController#index');
Route::get('blog/{category}', function($category = null)
{
// get all the blog stuff from database
// if a category was passed, use that
// if no category, get all posts
if ($category)
$posts = Post::where('category', '=', $category);
else
$posts = Post::all();
// show the view with blog posts (app/views/blog.blade.php)
return View::make('blog.index')
->with('posts', $posts);
});
BlogController
class BlogController extends BaseController {
public function index()
{
// get the posts from the database by asking the Active Record for "all"
$posts = Post::all();
// and create a view which we return - note dot syntax to go into folder
return View::make('blog.index', array('posts' => $posts));
}
}
This is my view layout:
#extends('base')
#section('content')
#foreach ($posts as $post)
<h2>{{ $post->id }}</h2>
<p>{{ $post->name }}</p>
#endforeach
#stop
Thanks

Answer 1

You need to add ->get() after your Eloquent query to fetch the results.
Route::get('blog/{category}', function($category = null)
{
// get all the blog stuff from database
// if a category was passed, use that
// if no category, get all posts
if ($category)
$posts = Post::where('category', '=', $category)->get();
else
$posts = Post::all();
// show the view with blog posts (app/views/blog.blade.php)
return View::make('blog.index')->with('posts', $posts);
});