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CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide

By : Tim Juravich
Book Image

CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide

By: Tim Juravich

Overview of this book

CouchDB is a NoSQL database which is making waves in the development world. It's the tool of choice for many PHP developers so they need to understand the robust features of CouchDB and the tools that are available to them.CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide will teach you the basics and fundamentals of using CouchDB within a project. You will learn how to build an application from beginning to end, learning the difference between the "quick way"ù to do things, and the "right way"ù by looking through a variety of code examples and real world scenarios. You will start with a walkthrough of setting up a sound development environment and then learn to create a variety of documents manually and programmatically. You will also learn how to manage their source control with Git and keep track of their progress. With each new concept, such as adding users and posts to your application, the author will take you through code step-by-step and explain how to use CouchDB's robust features. Finally, you will learn how to easily deploy your application and how to use simple replication to scale your application.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Starting your Application

Chapter 2. Setting up your Development Environment

In this chapter, we will set up your computer so that you can develop web applications using PHP and CouchDB. There are a lot of technologies that come into play when developing web applications, so we'll need to make sure that our systems are configured properly before we start writing the code.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Discuss your operating system and how to install the necessary components

  • Learn about the tools needed to develop PHP and CouchDB applications

  • Configure our web development environment

  • Learn about Homebrew and install CouchDB

  • Use Homebrew to install Git for version control

  • Confirm that you can make a request to CouchDB

Are you ready? Good! Let's get started by talking about operating systems and the role they play in setting up your development environment.

Operating systems

This book will focus primarily on the Mac OS X Operating System (10.5 and later). While it's possible to develop applications with PHP and CouchDB on any operating...