The first time I met CouchDB, my eyes blinked a long time… At least, a new way of storing data, a fun way, web-oriented ! Well of course there was a drawback to this : I had to forget all my SQL reflexes and way of thinking. And you can imagine how hard it is !
I then googled to find the available PHP libraries to work with CouchDB… Believe me or not, at that time, the ones I found still were SQLish : ORMs, Datamappers, … So I started building my own, and made it available to Github. Now it’s mature enough, so I think it’s the good time to show it to the community. This article will present the basics of CouchDB and the way to use it through PHP.
