Home page with .blades

[alex129]

Hello!

I had to install statamic to an existing laravel proyect. I need to use it with .blades.php files so I was trying to test the collections and blueprints but I couldn't cause laravel show the error:

The problem is that with the installation in the existing laravel proyect I don't have any collection and blueprint

My controller:

My route:

How can I create the home page and use the $page variable in my blade template?

Thanks!

[jasonvarga]

If you don't have any collections, then there'd be no page/entry to put in the $page variable. What are you expecting?

[alex129]

Hello Jason,

I already tryied to create a collection, for example "pages" but the error is still shown.

I'd like to know how can I create a collection for my home page with .blade.php and use $page variable to get title and content.

[jasonvarga]

If you've created the entry, in your controller you can retrieve it and pass it to your view.

return view('home.home', [
  'page' => \Statamic\Facades\Entry::find($id)
]);

or you could do Entry::findByUri('/').

[alex129]

It doesn't work, I've created a collection called Pages with a simple Entry Called Home

I tought that the $page variable was automatically sent to the vew. But I can't get it to work.

If I want a simple home page with my content, my footer and so. Do I have to create a collection with for exemple "Content" entry and "Footer" entry?

[jasonvarga]

It's only automatic on Statamic routes. You're creating a custom route with a custom controller, so you have to do it yourself.

What doesn't work? Get the id of the entry from the markdown file, and do Entry::find('the-id'). What do you get?

If you want the template-into-layout feature, then instead of Laravel's view() function, you can use this:

use Statamic\View\View;

return View::make('home.home')->layout('layout')->with($data);