Question

I have got Laravel to work for doing simple HTML pages, routing worked, as defined at this question of mine but I am not sure how to get MySQL and PDO working in a view.

I can get ‘traditional’ Hello world PHP/MySQL queries working in a view, but am not quite sure how to do this with Laravel’s framework.

I read through the documentation but couldn’t find anything on how to do this – anyone got any ideas?

Currently I have a basic page, but want to get a simple foreach query working, echoing data from this table:

testingdb
Tablename: test1

name VARCHAR (255)
town VARCHAR (255)
biography TEXT

How would I get this to work without using the traditional PHP/MySQL methods that are normally mentioned in tutorials and using pdo instead (source, nettuts, why you should use PDO article)?

Is there something I need to do, create a controller etc?

Answer 1

you can find the answer in the documents here http://laravel.com/docs/database/eloquent

to show you an example :
1) first form your model ( eg . test1)
2) make a database table connection and foreach like here:

foreach (test1::all() as $test)
{
     echo $test->name;
}