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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 views


We are just about ready to test this new code out, but we need to create the actual views so that we can display them.

  1. 1. Start by creating two new files in the views folder, inside our working directory, called home.php and signup.php.

  2. 2. Add the following code to the views/home.php file by writing the following code:

    Home Page <br /><br />
    <?php echo $message; ?>
    
  3. 3. Add the following code to the views/signup.php file:

    Signup Now!
    

What just happened?

We created two simple views that will be rendered by the index.php file. The line of code inside views/home.php that says<?php echo $message; ?>, will display the variable with the name message that was passed to our Bones library from our index.php file. Test it out!

Open up your browser, go to http://localhost/verge/ or http://localhost/verge/signup, and you'll see that all of our hard work has paid off. Our layout is now rendering, and our views are being displayed. We were also able...