Get a blog post (testing mysql connection)

Website/Controllers/BlogController.cs

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ namespace Website.Controllers
 
 		public async Task<IActionResult> View(int id)
 		{
-			var post = await _repo.GetPost(id);
+			var post = await _repo.GetPostAsync(id);
 			return View(post);
 		}
 	}

Website/Data/BlogRepository.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Linq;
+using Dapper;
 using Website.Models;
 
 namespace Website.Data
@@ -9,6 +11,13 @@ namespace Website.Data
 
 		public BlogRepository(DatabaseProvider dbProvider) => _dbProvider = dbProvider;
 
-		public Task<BlogPost> GetPost(int id) => Task.Run(() => new BlogPost{Id=id});
+		public async Task<BlogPost> GetPostAsync(int id) {
+			const string query = "SELECT * FROM blog_posts WHERE post_id=@id";
+			using (var connection = _dbProvider.NewConnection()) {
+				connection.Open();
+				var result = await connection.QueryAsync<BlogPost>(query, new{id});
+				return result.FirstOrDefault();
+			}
+		}
 	}
 }

Website/Data/DatabaseProvider.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using System.Data;
-using System.Data.SqlClient;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
+using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
 
 namespace Website.Data
 {
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ namespace Website.Data
 	{
 		private readonly string _connectionString;
 
-		public DatabaseProvider(IConfiguration config) => _connectionString = config["connectionString"];
+		public DatabaseProvider(IConfiguration config) => _connectionString = config.GetConnectionString("database");
 
 		public DatabaseProvider(string connectionString) => _connectionString = connectionString;
 
-		public IDbConnection NewConnection() => new SqlConnection(_connectionString);
+		public IDbConnection NewConnection() => new MySqlConnection(_connectionString);
 	}
 }

Website/Models/BlogPost.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ namespace Website.Models
 {
 	public class BlogPost
 	{
-		public int Id { get; internal set; }
+		public int PostId { get; set; }
+		public string PostTitle { get; set; }
+		public string Post_Title { get; set; }
 	}
 }

Website/Views/Blog/View.cshtml

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 	ViewData["Title"] = "Blog";
 }
 
-@Model.Id
+@Model.PostTitle