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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 the directories for Verge


Let's begin the setup of our project by creating a directory in the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder, and name that directory verge. This directory will contain all of the code for your project. For the sake of brevity, throughout this chapter, we'll call /Library/WebServer/Documents/verge our working directory.

Inside our working directory, let's create four new folders for our source files to go into:

  1. 1. Create a folder called classes. This folder will contain the PHP class objects that we'll be using in this project

  2. 2. Create a folder called lib. This folder will contain PHP libraries that our application relies on, which, in our case, will be the Bones framework and the class that will communicate with CouchDB.

  3. 3. Create a folder called public. This folder will contain all of our public files, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) , JavaScript, and images that our applications will need.

  4. 4. Create a folder called views. This folder...