The Loop for my theme with static front page is not working

Question

I'm developing a wordpress theme that uses a static page as front page.

My wordpress is configured to use "Home" page as its front_page and "Blog" page to show the blog posts.

When i try to use the loop on my "Blog" page to list the posts i get a odd behavior, the loop runs fine but any method to get the post information returns an empty string.

Sample code:

if (have_posts()) {
  while(have_posts()) {
    the_post();
    $posts[$index] = array(
                'title' => get_the_title(),
                'permalink' => get_permalink(get_the_ID()),
                'content' => get_the_content(),
                'day' => get_the_date('j'),
                'month' => get_the_date('M')
                );
    $index++;

  }
}

If i have 5 posts that yould return me an array with 5 elements, all of them with empty strings as the values.

If i add query_posts('posts_per_page=5');. it works, but that shouldn't be needed.

What am i missing?

You can check the complete source code on github: https://github.com/albertein/coltsintheme

Thank you

UPDATE: Even if i avoid using a static page as front page (delete front-page.php and configure wp con Settings>Reaging) I'm getting the same results which seems weird to me, it seems I'm missing something.

Answer 1

Just before the snippet i posted i was doing something like $posts = array();, it seems that wordpress keeps the collection of the posts to be used on the loop in a variable of the same name, so i was meesing with the data, just changed $posts for $items and now works fine.