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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 routes for us to test against Bones


Open up the index.php file and add the following two routes so that we can test our new code:

<?php
include 'lib/bones.php';
get('/', function($app) {
echo "Home";
});
get('/signup', function($app) {
echo "Signup!";
});


What just happened?

We just created two routes for our Bones class to handle / (which is the root URL) and /signup.

There are a few things to notice in the code that we just added:

  • Our two get routes are now clean, little functions, including our route and a function that will act as our callback function

  • Once the function is executed, we are using echo to display the simple text

  • When a route is matched and a callback is executed from Bones, the instance of Bones is returned as the variable $app, which can be used anywhere in the callback function

Testing it out!

We're all set to test out our new additions to Bones! Open up your browser, and go to http://localhost/verge/. You'll see the word Home. Then direct...