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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 — taking posts out of profile.php and putting them in their own partial view


The code for listing posts sits directly inside the profile.php page, which was fine up until now. However, in a moment, we'll want to be able to display posts via callback from Javascript, which on if we're not careful, could mean duplicate code or inconsistent layout. Let's safeguard ourselves against that by moving our code into a partial view that we can reuse easily.

  1. 1. Create a new file called _posts.php in views/user.

  2. 2. Copy and paste the foreach code that lists out posts from views/user/profile.php, and paste it into our new file _posts.php. The end result of _posts.php should as follows:

    <?php foreach ($posts as $post): ?>
    <div class="post-item row">
    <div class="span7">
    <strong><?php echo $user->name; ?></strong>
    <p>
    <?php echo $post->content; ?>
    </p>
    <?php echo $post->date_created; ?>
    </div>
    <div class="span1...