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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 — organizing our user views


As we continue to create views for our application, it will be smart for us to have some organization to make sure that we keep things nice and straightforward.

  1. 1. Create a folder called user inside the views directory.

  2. 2. Move the existing signup.php view into this folder. The resulting directory structure will look similar to the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We need to update index.php and let it know where to find the signup view that we just moved:

    get('/signup', function($app) {
    $app->render('user/signup');
    
    });
    

What just happened?

We cleaned up our views folder structure by creating a user folder, into which we will put all of the views that relate to users. We then moved our existing signup.php file into the user folder and told our index.php file where to find the user/signup.php file. Notice that the route for the signup page, /signup, hasn't changed at all.