Working with Databases on Heroku
Heroku uses a relational database management system (RDBMS) name PostgreSQL for its projects. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of documentation on how to use Heroku’s databases with a PHP application (though there is a lot for using Ruby and nodeJS). Fortunately, I have worked through some of the issues that will come up in using PostgreSQL on Heroku with a PHP application.
By default, PHP applications do not get a database automatically created when the project is initiated (Rails projects do). The first step is to create a shared-database with the heroku command-line interface, as shown in Listing 11–9.
Listing 11–9. Adding a Database to a Heroku Project
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