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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 — creating a quick info page


We are going to double-check that Apache can render PHP scripts by quickly creating a phpinfo page that will display a wide array of data about your configuration.

  1. 1. Open your text editor.

  2. 2. Create a new file that contains the following code:

    <?php phpinfo(); ?>
    
  3. 3. Save the file with the name, info.php, and save that file in the following location: /Library/WebServer/Documents/info.php.

  4. 4. Open your browser.

  5. 5. Navigate your browser to http://localhost/info.php.

  6. 6. Your browser will display the following page:

What just happened?

We used our text editor to create a file called info.php that contained a special PHP function called phpinfo. We saved the info.php file into the folder: /Library/Webserver/Documents. This folder is the default location (in Mac OS X only) for all of the files that your Apache service will display. When your browser hit the info.php page, the phpinfo looked at your PHP installation and returned an HTML file with details...