Question

Can you tell me how to use a controller for home page because i’m trying to put a model’s data in home.ctp (homepage view) with
<?php $this->user->find() ?>but it returns

Notice (8): Undefined property:
View::$user [APP\views\pages\home.ctp,
line 1]

Answer 1

You should check out the cookbook; it has some solid CakePHP tutorials, at http://book.cakephp.org/

You haven’t really provided alot of information, but my guess is your Controller uses a model ‘User’, and you’re putting $this->user->find() in your view, when it should be in your controller. In your controller’s action you’ll want/need to do something like this…

Users_Controller extends AppController {
    function index() {
        $arrayOfUsers = $this->User->find(...);
        $this->set('users', $arrayOfUsers);
    }
}

You can then – in your View – access ‘users’ like so:

pre($users);

… since you used the Controller method set() to send a variable $users to the view.