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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 a database for Verge with curl


We created a database using curl in Chapter 3, Getting Started with CouchDB and Futon. Let's quickly recap how to use a PUT request to create a new database in CouchDB.

  1. 1. Create a new database by running the following command in Terminal. Make sure to replace username and password with the database administrator user that you created in Chapter 3.

    curl -X PUT username:password@localhost:5984/verge
    
    
  2. 2. Terminal will respond with the following output:

    {"ok":true}
    
    

What just happened?

We used Terminal to trigger a PUT request, using curl, to create a database through CouchDB's RESTful JSON API. We passed verge as the name of the database at the end of CouchDB's root URL. When the database was successfully created, we received a message that everything went okay.