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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 User object


Now that we have our Base class created, let's create a User class that will house the properties and functions for all things related to users.

  1. 1. Create a new file called user.php, and place it in the classes folder along with base.php.

  2. 2. Let's create a class that extends our Base class.

    <?php
    class User extends Base
    {
    }
    
  3. 3. Let's add the two properties that we know we need so far: name and email, into our User class.

    <?php
    class User extends Base
    {
    protected $name;
    protected $email;
    
    }
    
  4. 4. Let's add a __construct function that will tell our Base class that our document type is user on creation.

    <?php
    class User extends Base
    {
    protected $name;
    protected $email;
    public function __construct()
    {
    parent::__construct('user');
    }
    
    }
    
    

What just happened?

We created a simple class called user.php that extends Base. Extends means that it will inherit the properties and functions that are available so that we can take advantage of them. We then included...