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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 — plugging the User object in


With our new User object in our system, we can easily plug it into our application code, and we should be up and running.

  1. 1. Open up the index.php file, and change stdClass to User(). While we are at it, we can also remove $user->type = 'user' because that's now handled in our class:

    post('/signup', function($app) {
    $user = new User();
    
    $user->name = $app->form('name');
    $user->email = $app->form('email');
    $app->couch->post($user);
    }
    
  2. 2. Adjust the Sag post statement so that we can pass our class in the JSON format:

    post('/signup', function($app) {
    $user = new User();
    $user->name = $app->form('name');
    $user->email = $app->form('email');
    $app->couch->post($user->to_json);
    
    }
    

What just happened?

We replaced the instance of stdClass with User(). This will give us complete control over getting and setting the variables. We then removed $user->type = 'user' because the __construct functions in our User and...