Do you find the JSON conversion easy with PHP, or is this just shoe fitting another mapping tool?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jo Giraerts <[email protected]> wrote: > In my case, i'm doing the development in PHP with a custom session-handler > that also uses couchdb as session-storage. > But couchdb is language-agnostic and since it's completely http-rest, you > can access it from any language that lets you access an url and is capable > of handling json - which is probably any language still in use today. So, > my > humble advice is just go with whatever language you are comfortable with > ;-) > if you're interested in my couchdb-session-handler, it's on github: > http://github.com/whachoe/Couchdb-PHP-Session-Handler > > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Justin Stanczak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm having a little trouble figuring out what to select as the server > side > > language for accessing CouchDB. I'm new to CouchDB so this paragraph will > > be > > a long list of questions and sentences of how I understand things to this > > point in time. Please feel free to correct me and help me better learn. I > > like the idea of eliminating all the DB mapping and focus on programming > > again, that CouchDB allows you to do. So I guess the first issue is you > > don't want your CouchDB exposed to the WWW, so you need a HTTPD to act as > a > > proxy, via some language. This language would provide the session > tracking. > > That session tracking would give you user logins and what not. This would > > also restrict access to your CouchDB, as I don't see CouchDB has much in > > the > > way of protection when it comes to access control to it's databases. This > > leads to the issue of Javascript not being the language of choice for > > client > > side, as you really don't want clients, duh. So now that's where my > > language > > server side question comes from. What's a good option when using CouchDB? > I > > know everyone has their opinions, but really, if you are using CouchDB as > > your back end database what language has been developed the most with > > CouchDB? What works the best? Surely there is one that stands out over > the > > rest? Maybe I'm way off, any input is welcome, thanks. > > >
