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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

User profile


The main attraction of any social network is a user's profile; the user profile usually displays the basic information of a user and shows any content that they have created.

By the end of this section, our user profiles will work as follows:

  • If a visitor goes to http://localhost/verge/user/johndoe, our routing system will match it with the route /user/:username

  • The index.php file will take johndoe as the value for username, and pass it to the User class in an attempt to find the user document with a matching ID

  • If johndoe is found, index.php will display a profile with the information for johndoe

  • If johndoe is not found, the visitor will see a 404 error, meaning that the user with that username does not exist

Finding a user with routes

In order to find users, we'll first need to create a function that will take the username as a parameter and return a user object if it is a valid one.