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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 — adding a validate function to ensure that only creators can update or delete their documents


Adding validate functions can be a bit odd, because unlike views, there isn't a nice interface in Futon for us to use. The quickest way to add the validate_doc_update function is to treat it like a normal field in our document and type the code right into the value. It's a bit strange, but it is the quickest way to adjust design documents. At the end of the chapter, I'll give you some resources if you want to get a bit cleaner with how you manage design documents.

  1. 1. Open your browser and go to Futon (http://localhost:5984/_utils/).

  2. 2. Make sure that you are logged in to the admin account by checking that the bottom right column says Welcome.

  3. 3. Go to our verge database by clicking on verge.

  4. 4. Click on our _design/application design document.

  5. 5. Click on Add Field, and call this field validate_doc_update.

  6. 6. In the Value text area, add the following code (formatting and indents don...