在laravel中处理数组

I am learning laravel and trying to create a community with laravel. I stuck at some part and need to ask you guys.

Right now I am trying to displaying posts to reader.

This is what i accomplish so far

with this code :

public $restful = true;
public function get_index($title = '')
{
    //Do we have an arguement?
        if(empty($title))
        {return Redirect::to('dashboard');}

    $view = View::make('entry');
    $query = DB::table('threads')->where('title', '=', $title)->first();

    //Do we have this thread?
        if(!$query)
        {return Redirect::to('entry/suggest');}
    //We have? so lets rock it!
    $view->title = $query->title; //we get the title.

    $thread_id = $query->id;

    //getting posts.

    $posts = DB::table('posts')->where('thread_id', '=', $thread_id)->get();


    $view->posts = $posts;

  return $view;
}

and the view is :

<div id="entrybox">
    <h2>{{$title}}</h2>
@foreach($posts as $post)
    <p class="entry"><span class="entrynumber">1</span><span class="entry_text">{{$post->post_entry}}</span></p>
    <p align="right" class="edate"><span class="entry_user">{post_row.POST_USERNAME}</span> <span class="entry_date">{post_row.DATE}</span></p>
@endforeach
</div>

But the hard part(for me) is integrate posts with poster's username or other user info like e-mail for moderate privileges. However hey are in 'users' table.

Lets say $posts variable holds data of 10 posts for a thread *a post has thread_id , poster_userid, post, posted_date.

How can i grab username from 'users' table and send it to my view? I am sure i need to use foreach after selecting posts from database I just dont know how to handle arrays in foreach.

Look up how to set up models and their relationships using Eloquent ORM: http://laravel.com/docs/database/eloquent

Specifically http://laravel.com/docs/database/eloquent#relationships

You should have three models, Thread, Post and User (change poster_userid to user_id... or you can keep it but I wouldn't suggest it... just keep things simple. You could also use author_id or maybe even poster_id if that floats your boat.. just be sure to change 'user_id' out with what you choose)

//application/models/User.php

class User extends Eloquent {

 public function posts()
 {
      return $this->has_many('Post', 'user_id');
 }
}

and

//application/models/Post.php
class Post extends Eloquent {

 public function author()
 {
    return $this->belongs_to('User', 'user_id');
 }

 public function thread()
 {
    return $this->belongs_to('Thread', 'thread_id');
 }
}

and

 //application/models/Thread.php
    class Thread extends Eloquent {

     public function posts()
     {
          return $this->has_many('Post', 'thread_id');
     }

    }

and instead of

$query = DB::table('threads')->where('title', '=', $title)->first();

//Do we have this thread?
    if(!$query)
    {return Redirect::to('entry/suggest');}
//We have? so lets rock it!
$view->title = $query->title; //we get the title.

$thread_id = $query->id;

//getting posts.

$posts = DB::table('posts')->where('thread_id', '=', $thread_id)->get();

I would just put

$thread = Thread::where('title', '=', $title)->first();

if(!$query)
    {return Redirect::to('entry/suggest');}

$posts = $thread->posts()->get();
//or if you want to eager load the author of the posts:
//$posts = $thread->posts()->with('author')->get();

Then in your view you can look up the user's name by the following:

$post->author->username;

Easy peezy.

With Eloquent you can do this in multiple ways.

First, you can add a method to your post model that retrieves the related data. This approach will create a new query for each post, so it's normally not the best choice.

class Post extends Eloquent
{
    public function user()
    {
        return $this->has_one('User');
    }
}

Second, you can modify your initial query to join your desired data and avoid creating undo queries. Know as "Eager Loading".

// Example from Laravel.com

foreach (Book::with('author')->get() as $book)
{
    echo $book->author->name;
}