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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 — using constants to get the location of the working directory


The first thing that we need to do is create a named constant called ROOT, which will give us the full location of our working directory. Until now, we haven't had to do any extra including of files, but with our layouts and views, it'll start to get a bit difficult if we don't add some functionality to get the working directory. In order to support this, let's add a simple line of code right at the top of our lib/bones.php file.

<?php
ini_set('display_errors','On');
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);
define('ROOT', __DIR__ . '/..');

function get($route, $callback) {
...
}

What just happened?

This line of code creates a constant named ROOT that we can then use throughout our code to reference the working directory. __DIR__ gives us the root of the current file (/Library/Webserver/Documents/verge/lib). So, we'll want to look at one more directory back by appending /.. to the path.