I'm trying to follow this Express.js and MongoDB tutorial with the difference of making my index page have a form where you save an email address.
This is the main code so far:
emailprovider.js
var Db = require('mongodb').Db;
var Connection = require('mongodb').Connection;
var Server = require('mongodb').Server;
var BSON = require('mongodb').BSON;
var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;
EmailProvider = function(host, port) {
this.db= new Db('email-test', new Server(host, port, {safe: false}, {auto_reconnect: true}, {}));
this.db.open(function(){});
};
EmailProvider.prototype.getCollection= function(callback) {
this.db.collection('emails', function(error, email_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error);
else callback(null, email_collection);
});
};
//save new email
EmailProvider.prototype.save = function(emails, callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, email_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
if( typeof(emails.address)=="undefined")
emails = [emails];
for( var i =0;i< emails.address;i++ ) {
email = emails[i];
email.created_at = new Date();
}
email_collection.insert(emails, function() {
callback(null, emails);
});
}
});
};
exports.EmailProvider = EmailProvider;
app.js
var express = require('express')
, routes = require('./routes')
, user = require('./routes/user')
, http = require('http')
, path = require('path')
, EmailProvider = require('./emailprovider').EmailProvider;
var app = express();
app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/users', user.list);
//Routes
//get new email form
app.get('/email/new', function(req, res) {
res.render('email_new', {
title: 'Email Address'
});
});
//save new email
app.post('/email/new', function(req, res){
emailProvider.save({
address: req.param('name')
}, function( error, docs) {
res.redirect('/')
});
});
index.js
.form-area
form(method='post')
input(type='text', name='address', placeholder='Your email address')
input(type='submit', value='Send')
I really don't have a clue what's going on in the emailprovider. I kinda got the routes down but right now when I try to save a new Email I get a Cannot POST /
404 error message. What's the correct way to do this?
Thanks.
EDIT: removed extra commas in jade syntax for input attributes.