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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 4. Starting your Application

We are ready to start developing the framework behind our application!

In this chapter, we will:

  • Create a simple PHP framework from scratch - Bones

  • Learn how to use Git for source control

  • Add functionality to Bones to handle URL requests

  • Build out support for views and layouts, so that we can add a frontend to our application

  • Add code to allow us to handle all of the HTTP methods

  • Set up complex routing and build it into an example application

  • Add the ability to use public files and use them with our framework

  • Publish our code to GitHub, so that we can manage our source code

Let's jump right into it!

What we'll build in this book

For the rest of this book, we will create a simple social network that is similar to Twitter. Let's call it Verge.

Verge will allow users to sign up, log in, and create posts. By building this application, we'll jump over the same hurdles that most developers do when they build an application, and we'll learn to rely on CouchDB for some of...