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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 — installing CouchDB


Now that we have Homebrew installed, we are finally ready to install CouchDB.

Note

Please note that before Homebrew installs CouchDB, it will install all of its dependencies, which include such things as: Erlang, Spidermonkey, ICU, and so on. This section might take up to 10-15 minutes to complete, because they are being compiled locally on your machine. Don't worry if it seems like it's taking too long; this is normal.

We are going to install CouchDB using Homebrew.

  1. 1. Open Terminal

  2. 2. Run the following command:

    brew install couchdb -v
    
    
  3. 3. Terminal will respond with a lot of text over the next couple of minutes. You will see it grab each dependency and then install it. At the very end, you will receive a success message.

What just happened?

We just installed CouchDB from the source and downloaded all of its dependencies. After installation, Homebrew put everything in the right folders and configured everything we need to use CouchDB.