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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 the user profile


We're going to clean up the user view a few times in this chapter. But, let's start by just dumping out all of the user document content into our view.

  1. 1. Create a view called user/profile.php inside the views directory in our working folder.

  2. 2. Make a simple header for the profile with the following HTML:

    <div class="page-header">
    <h1>User Profile</h1>
    </div>
    
  3. 3. Since we don't have much of a design yet, let's just use var_dump to show all of the contents of the User document:

    <div class="page-header">
    <h1>User Profile</h1>
    </div>
    <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
    <?php var_dump($user); ?>
    </div>
    </div>
    
    

What just happened?

We just created a very basic user profile with a header to tell us that this page is the user profile. Then, we used var_dump to display all of the contents of the user object. var_dump is a general PHP function that outputs structured information...