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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 posts to the user profile


Now that we have done all of the heavy lifting to get our user's posts, we just have a few more lines of code until we can have them show up in the user profile. Let's start by adding some code in our index.php file to accept the username from the route, pass it to the get_posts_by_user function, and pass the data to the profile view:

  1. 1. Open index.php, find the /user/:username route, and add the following code to pass the returned posts from our get_posts_by_user function to a variable for our view to access:

    get('/user/:username', function($app) {
    $app->set('user', User::find_by_username($app- >request('username')));
    $app->set('is_current_user', ($app->request('username') == User::current_user() ? true : false));
    $app->set('posts', Post::get_posts_by_user($app- >request('username')));
    
    $app->render('user/profile');
    });
    
  2. 2. Open views/user/profile.php, and add the following code right below the Create a new post text...