Assistance with Blog Tutorial

Good evening,

Rookie developer, in MVC for 6 months, CakePHP for about 1. My
current tests with Cake can be seen at: http://174.129.130.149/items

I am experiencing an issue on the drill down. I paste everything into
a text doc so I could do a line by line but the issue is eluding me.

I can successfully see all items of my table. I can click the link
and go from index.ctp to view.ctp. My id passes successfully. No db
data shows on view.ctp, but there are no errors. The test var in item
2 below displays. I cast $id as an (int) and did a gettype to test,
and it came back as an int. Still no luck? I am assuming I am
missing something quite simple, but after three hours of looking at
this I obviously do not know what I am looking at.

1. app/Model/Item.php

class Item extends AppModel {
public $name = 'Item';
}

2. app/Controller/ItemsController.ctp contains the following (index()
works like a champ):
public function view($id = null) {
$this->Item->ItemKey1 = $id;
$this->set('item', $this->Item->read());
$this->set('testvar', 'it is set');
}

index successfully executes find('all');

3. app/View/Items/view.ctp contains the line: echo $item['Item']
['DBField']; and echo $testvar;

a. index.ctp does the following: <?php echo $this->Html-
>link($item['Item']['ItemDescription'], array('controller' => 'Items',
'action' => 'view', $item['Item']['ItemKey1']) ); ?>
the link works and I go to the correct page, I do a view source
and everything is there minus any data from the db. I've tried
changing item names to upper case, adding an 's', but each changes
throws an error. I thought the issue was the id coming in as a string
so I cast to an int, still no dice.

R/s,
Dave

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