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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

Operating systems


This book will focus primarily on the Mac OS X Operating System (10.5 and later). While it's possible to develop applications with PHP and CouchDB on any operating system, I will be restricting most of my discussions to Mac OS X for simplicity and brevity. If you're using a Mac, you can skip ahead to the next section, titled Setting up your web development environment on Mac OS X.

If you're running Windows or Linux, don't worry! I'll give you some setup tips to get you started, and then you can take it from there. Again, it's worth noting that the command line statements that I use in this book are meant for use on a Mac OS. With that in mind, things such as navigating to your working directory, the location of files, and many more may not work as described.

Windows

If you're running Windows, there are a few easy steps you need to follow to get your machine up and running.

Installing Apache and PHP

You can simplify the setup of your Apache and PHP environment by using WAMP...