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CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide

By : Tim Juravich
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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

Using Gravatars


At this point, our profiles look a bit boring with just a bunch of text, because we don't have support for uploading images into our system. We're going to avoid this topic in this book for the sake of time, but also for our users' benefit. There is a decent amount of friction in getting users to upload a new profile image each time they join a service. Instead, there is a service that can make our lives a bit easier: Gravatar (http://www.gravatar.com). Gravatar is a web service that allows users to upload a profile image to one single location. From there, other applications can grab the profile image, using the user's e-mail address as the identifier of the image.