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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 — adding the fields to support the user documents


We already have the basic structure of user documents set up in the classes/user.php file, but let's go through and add a few more fields.

  1. 1. We currently aren't setting _id in any of our projects, but we'll need to do that for our user documents. Let's open up classes/base.php, and add _id so that we have the option of setting _id on any document.

    <?php
    abstract class Base {
    protected $_id;
    
    protected $type;
    
  2. 2. We need to add all of the user fields that we just discussed into the classes/user.php file, and a few others. Add the following code to classes/user.php so that it looks as follows:

    <?php
    class User extends Base {
    protected $name;
    protected $email;
    protected $full_name;
    protected $salt;
    protected $password_sha;
    protected $roles;
    
    

What just happened?

We added all the fields that we'll need to be able to save user documents into our system. We added _id to the base.php class, because we know that every CouchDB document...