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Symfony2 – Franz Jordán 2011
You've now introduced a methodology that allows for the reuse of the layout. Unfortunately, to
accomplish this, you're forced to use a few ugly PHP functions
(ob_start(), ob_get_clean()) in the template. Symfony2 uses a Templating component
that allows this to be accomplished cleanly and easily. You'll see it in action shortly.
Adding a Blog "show" Page
The blog "list" page has now been refactored so that the code is better-organized and reusable.
To prove it, add a blog "show" page, which displays an individual blog post identified by
an id query parameter.
To begin, create a new function in the model.php file that retrieves an individual blog result
based on a given id:
// model.php
function get_post_by_id($id)
{
$link = open_database_connection();
$id = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
$query = 'SELECT date, title, body FROM post WHERE id = '.$id;
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
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