Book Image

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 — replicating our local _users database to Cloudant


Let's use Futon to replicate our local _users database to the _users database that we created on Cloudant.

  1. 1. Open Futon in the browser and click on Replicator, or you can navigate directly to http://localhost:5984/_utils/replicator.html.

  2. 2. Make sure that you are signed in as the administrator; if you are not, click on Login and sign in as an administrator.

  3. 3. Select the _users database in the Replicate changes from the dropdown list.

  4. 4. Click on the Remote database radio button in the To section.

  5. 5. In the Remote database text field, enter the URL of the database at Cloudant along with the credentials. The format of the URL will look similar to https://username:[email protected]/_users.

  6. 6. Click on Replicate, and CouchDB will push your local database to Cloudant.

  7. 7. You'll see the familiar results from Futon.

What just happened?

We just used Futon to replicate our local _users database to our _users production...