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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 — hooking up our application to Bones


Let's start by creating the Bones library and then connecting our index.php file to it.

  1. 1. Create a file named bones.php inside of the lib folder of our working directory (/Library/Webserver/Documents/verge/lib/bones.php).

  2. 2. Add the following code to the index.php file in our working directory, so that we can talk to the newly created bones.php file:

    <?php
    include 'lib/bones.php';
    

What just happened?

All that this code is doing is including our lib/bones.php file, and that's good enough for us right now! Notice that we didn't end the file with a ?>, as you may be accustomed to seeing. The ?> tag is actually optional, and, in our case, leaving it will allow us to reduce the unwanted whitespace and to add headers to response later in the code, if we would like.

Using Bones to handle requests

To illustrate what we are planning to do with the Bones class, let's go through a quick example on what we would like to accomplish by the end...