#Cloudant

##Cloudant Document-Oriented (NoSQL) Database

Cloudant is a JSON data store, a type of a NoSQL database that is an excellent fit for multi-structured data, unstructured data and fast-changing data models.

If you are going to use PHP

To try the sample Cloudant application, change directory to bluemix-cloudant-php-sample and then deploy to Bluemix by executing the following commands:

cf login
cf create-service cloudantNoSQLDB Shared myCloudant
cf push

After the commands complete successfully, look for the console output specifying the application URL. It should look something like

usage: 128M x 1 instances
urls: feedbackform.mybluemix.net

Open your favorite browser using the URL ending with mybluemix.net (such as feedbackform.mybluemix.net/views/new.php in the example above) from the console output to access the application.

To install PHP pre-requisites for a local deployment

Via Composer

$ composer install