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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

Time for action — opening your web browser


We are going to access the Apache service on our machine by opening a web browser, and navigating to Apache's URL.

  1. 1. Open your web browser.

  2. 2. Type http://localhost into the address bar, and hit Enter.

  3. 3. Your browser will display the following message to you:

What just happened?

We used the web browser to access Apache, and in return, it showed us a quick verification that everything was hooked up correctly. Our computer knew that we were trying to access our local Apache service because of the URL http://localhost. The URL http://localhost actually maps to the address http://127.0.0.1:80, which is the address and port of the Apache service. You will see 127.0.0.1 come up again when we discuss CouchDB.

PHP

PHP is in the title of this book, so you know it will play a big part in the development process. PHP is already installed on your machine, so you have nothing to install. Let's just double check that you can access PHP by using Terminal.