CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide [electronic resource].

ISBN:

9781849513593

9781849513586

Title:

CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide [electronic resource].

Author:

Juravich, Tim.

Personal Author:

Juravich, Tim.

Publication Information:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 pages)

General Note:

Time for action -- anonymously accessing the _users database.

Contents:

CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide; CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Time for action -- heading; What just happened?; Pop quiz -- heading; Have a go hero -- heading; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Introduction to CouchDB.

The NoSQL database evolutionWhat makes NoSQL different; Classification of NoSQL databases; CAP theorem; ACID; So what does all of that mean?; Advantages of NoSQL databases; Negatives of NoSQL databases; When you should use NoSQL databases; When you should avoid NoSQL databases; Introduction to CouchDB; The history of CouchDB; Defining CouchDB; Summary; 2. Setting up your Development Environment; Operating systems; Windows; Installing Apache and PHP; Installing Git; Installing CouchDB; Linux; Installing Apache and PHP; Installing Git; Installing CouchDB.

Setting up your web development environment on Mac OS XTerminal; Time for action -- using Terminal to show hidden files; What just happened?; Text editor; Apache; Web browser; Time for action -- opening your web browser; What just happened?; PHP; Time for action -- checking your PHP version; What just happened?; Time for action -- making sure that Apache can connect to PHP; What just happened?; Time for action -- creating a quick info page; What just happened?; Fine tuning Apache; Time for action -- further configuration of Apache; What just happened?; Our web development setup is complete!

Installing CouchDBHomebrew; Time for action -- installing Homebrew; What just happened?; Time for action -- installing CouchDB; What just happened?; Checking that our setup is complete; Starting CouchDB; Time for action -- checking that CouchDB is running; What just happened?; Running CouchDB as a background process; Installing version control; Git; Time for action -- installing and configuring Git; What just happened?; Did you have any problems?; Pop quiz; Summary; 3. Getting Started with CouchDB and Futon; What is CouchDB?; Database server; Documents; Example of a CouchDB document; JSON format.

Key-value storageReserved fields; RESTful JSON API; Time for action -- getting a list of all databases in CouchDB; What just happened?; Time for action -- creating new databases in CouchDB; What just happened?; Time for action -- deleting a database In CouchDB; What just happened?; Time for action -- creating a CouchDB document; What just happened?; Futon; Time for action -- updating a document in Futon; What just happened?; Time for action -- creating a document in Futon; What just happened?; Security; Time for action -- taking CouchDB out of Admin Party; What just happened?

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Subject Term:

Database management.

PHP (Computer program language)

Web site development.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2012.

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Summary

Key Features Build and deploy a flexible Social Networking application using PHP and leveraging key features of CouchDB to do the heavy lifting Explore the features and functionality of CouchDB, by taking a deep look into Documents, Views, Replication, and much more. Conceptualize a lightweight PHP framework from scratch and write code that can easily port to other frameworks Book Description 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. What you will learn Set up a web development environment from scratch Dive into CouchDB and learn how it looks at databases, documents, design documents, and views Conceptualize and create a simple PHP framework from scratch that will interact directly with CouchDB Create the ability for users to sign up, log in, and reset their password through our application using CouchDB Allow users to create posts and leverage design documents, views, and lists to do the heavy lifting Learn how to add some of the bells and whistles commonly used by modern social networks Add security and deploy your application to production Learn how to use CouchDB to replicate your database Who this book is for

This book is for beginner and intermediate PHP developers interested in using CouchDB development in their projects. Advanced PHP developers will appreciate the familiarity of the PHP architecture and can easily learn how to incorporate CouchDB into their existing development experiences.