Your example with creating a view in couch-client_view.md does not work this way...

[SMut]

You try to define a map this way: $view_fn="function(doc) { emit(doc.timestamp,null); }"; //<- no map key here! $design_doc->views = array ( 'by_date',$view_fn); //<- so, this won't work! because the map key is missing, so $view_fn must be an array!

I use this definition and it works as expected: $view_fn=array( 'map' => 'function(doc) { emit(doc.timestamp,null); }'); $design_doc->views = array ( 'by_date',$view_fn);

Great piece of work, thank you very much for githubbing without your work I'd be lost...

[dready92]

Hello Smut,

thanks for taking the time to give me some feedback on PoC. I don't know the version of the documenation you're seeing, but the last one (I pushed it the third of december) seems to be good.

There is no difference between doing :

$view_fn=array( 'map' => 'function(doc) { emit(doc.timestamp,null); }'); 
$design_doc->views = array ( 'by_date',$view_fn);

(your way), and doing :

$view_fn="function(doc) { emit(doc.timestamp,null); }";
$design_doc->views = array ( 'by_date'=> array ('map' => $view_fn ) );

(the doc way). The reason I wrote the documentation like this is to isolate the Javascript code ( $view_fn ) from the PHP stuff. Perhaps I should add more comments to better explain the "Creating a view" chapter.. ?

Regards,

Mickael

[SMut]

Hi Mickael,

in the documentation it would be a huge increase of usability for couchDB if you add a section for 'views for SQL junkies' like in O'reilleys couchDB book.

I read the book very often online, but it's got no examples for your great PHP tool. So I always take a peek there and use your great piece of software to find a way to get those examples working.

What I'd really need is a book about couchDB, PHP on the server side including AJAX-requests using jQuery. It seems to me, when I get my 'handballplaner'-stuff running the way I want it, I should write a book about this matter :-)

Everything's fine and thanks a lot for your work and help in the past, for a newbie laying RESTless on the couch :-P