Laravel在不调用“all（）”的情况下获取记录

Question

I have been scratching my head over this one, hopefully a super simple answer.

I am using andrewelkins' (excellent!) start site to learn the ways of Laravel, which can be found over at https://github.com/andrewelkins/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site. This starter-site is a simple blog-system, to get to know Laravel.

In one of the controllers (to be specific: AdminBlogsController.php) I see the following code:

public function getIndex()
    {
    // Title
    $title = Lang::get('admin/blogs/title.blog_management');

    //Grab all the blog posts
    $posts = $this->post;

    // Show the page
    return View::make('admin/blogs/index', compact('posts', 'title'));
}

What bothers me, how can you call $this->post without calling something like all(); to get all records.

In every other tutorial I see something like $this->post->all(), but not here. Do note, that this code without the all() works.

Answer 1

That code is broken and the comment is misleading. The view does not receive any posts. To verify, search the view for the $post variable. You won't find it, because it's not being used at all.

So then how do the posts render on the page?

Simple answer: AJAX.

The posts are not present on initial page load. Rather, they're loaded in through AJAX from this controller method, where you can clearly see the database calls!