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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

Setting up your web development environment on Mac OS X


In this section, we will go step-by-step and ensure that our development environment is set up correctly. From here on out, I'm assuming you are using a machine that is running Mac OS X without any special modifications to Apache or PHP. If you've done a lot of customization to your development environment, then you probably already know how to configure your machine so that everything works properly.

Now that I've bored you to death with disclaimers, let's get things rolling! The first part of our journey is to meet an application that we will spend a lot of our time with: Terminal.

Terminal

Terminal is a built-in command line utility for Mac OS X. Using the command line can be a bit of a strange experience when you are just getting started but is extremely powerful once it's mastered. If the basic commands, such as cd, ls, and mkdir look like gibberish to you, then you might want to do some quick research on the UNIX command line....