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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 : handling 404 errors with Bones


Let's create a view for 404 errors that we can use around our application.

  1. 1. Start by creating a new view in our views/error/ directory called 404.php.

  2. 2. Let's add some very basic code to 404.php that will inform the visitor that our application couldn't find the requested page.

    <div class="hero-unit">
    <h1>Page Not Found</h1>
    </div>
    
  3. 3. In order for us to render this view, let's add another function called error404 into our lib/bones.php file. This function will nicely display 404 errors for us.

    public function error404() {
    $this->render('error/404');
    exit;
    }
    

What just happened?

We created a simple view, called 404.php, that we can show any time a 404 error occurs in our application. We then created a simple function called error404 in lib/bones.php that renders error/404.php and terminates the current script so no further actions occur.

Showing 404 errors for unknown users

Now that we have our 404 error handler, let...