CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner’s Guide

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Time for action — getting a list of all databases in CouchDB

You've seen a GET request earlier in this book when we used the curl statement: curl http://localhost:5984.

This time, let's issue a GET request to access CouchDB and get a list of all of the databases on the server.

Run the following command in Terminal:

curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/_all_dbs

Terminal will respond with the following:
```
["_users"] 
```

What just happened?

We used Terminal to trigger a GET request to CouchDB's RESTful JSON API. We used one of the options: -X, of curl, to define the HTTP method. In this instance, we used GET. GET is the default method, so technically you could omit -X if you wanted to. Once CouchDB processes the request, it sends back a list of the databases that are in the CouchDB server. Currently, there is only the _users database, which is a default database that CouchDB uses to authenticate users.