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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

Configuring our project


Now that we have our production database set up, our code needs to know how to connect to it. We could just alter over the hardcoded values we have in our Bones library and change it back and forth each time we want to develop locally or deploy to production. But, trust me that you don't want to go through the hassle of doing this, and more importantly, we don't want to store any usernames or passwords in our code; for this we'll use environment variables. Environment variables are a set of dynamically named values that allow you to define variables from the applications hosting environment. Let's create a class that will allow us to use environment variables so that our code is free of sensitive information and our application is easy to configure.