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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 : Examine CouchDB's log


Since we all installed CouchDB the same way with Homebrew, we can be sure that our CouchDB logs all live in the same location. With that in mind, let's look at our CouchDB log.

  1. 1. Open Terminal.

  2. 2. Retrieve the last few lines of the log by running the following command:

    tail /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/couch.log
    
    
  3. 3. Terminal will return something similar to the following:

    [Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:04:56 GMT] [info] [<0.879.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'GET' /_uuids?count=1 200
    [Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:04:56 GMT] [info] [<0.879.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'PUT' /_users/org.couchdb.user:johndoe 409
    
    

What just happened?

We used a tail command to return the last few lines of the CouchDB log.

The first record you'll notice is /uuids?count=1, which is us grabbing the UUIDs for salt in our signup function. Notice that it returned a 200 status, which means that it executed successfully.

The next line says'PUT' /_users/org.couchdb.user:johndoe, and it returned a 409 response. The...