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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 .htaccess file


In order for us to handle all requests to a directory, we'll create a .htaccess file in the working directory.

  1. 1. Create a file called .htaccess in the working directory.

  2. 2. Add the following code to the file:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]
    </IfModule>
    
  3. 3. Open the file index.php in the working directory.

  4. 4. Change the code inside of index.php to match the following:

    <?php echo $_GET['request']; ?>
    
  5. 5. Open your browser, go to http://localhost/verge/test/abc, and go to http://localhost/verge/test/123. Notice that the page will respond back to you with the same value that you entered at the end of the root URL.

What just happened?

We first created a .htaccess file to enable us to do URL rewriting. The first line,<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>, checks to make sure that we enabled the mod_rewrite module...