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I am using the Ejs templating engine for my expressjs project and despite passing my objects along to my view blog.ejs file, I am receiving an blogpost not defined error in my ejs file. Error is happening at my <% blogpost.forEach(function(blogpost) { %> line. I figure that is has something to do with how im passing the object and its properties, but I followed guides and it appears correct.
routes.js:
//blog
router.route('/blog')
// START POST method
.post(function(req, res) {
var blogpost = new Blogpost(); // create a new instance of a Blogpost model
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // set the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // set the author name
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // set the blog content
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // set the date of the post
//Save Blog Post
blogpost.save(function(err) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
res.json({ message: 'Blog created.' });
});
}) // END POST method
// START GET method
.get(function(req, res) {
Blogpost.find(function(err, blogpost) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // update the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // set the author name
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // update the blog content
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // set the date of the post
res.render('pages/blog', {
title: blogpost.title,
author: blogpost.author,
content: blogpost.content,
date: blogpost.date
});
});
}); // END GET method
blog.ejs:
<html>
<head>
<% include ../partials/head %>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<% include ../partials/header %>
</header>
<div class="grid">
<div class="col-1-1">
<div class="body-content">
<% blogpost.forEach(function(blogpost) { %>
<h1><%= blogpost.title %></h1>
<% }); %>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<footer>
<% include ../partials/footer %>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
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A variable declaration starts with the keyword var followed by the variable name, e.g. : var myVariable; The variable declaration ends with a semi-colon. The names of the variables in EJS-templates are case-sensitive: myVariable and myvariable are different variables.
You're not passing an array variable called blogpost to your template, you are instead passing these variables to your template:
title: blogpost.title,
author: blogpost.author,
content: blogpost.content,
date: blogpost.date
You could just do this render() instead of the one you currently have:
res.render('pages/blog', {
blogpost: blogpost,
});
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