jonaheinke / recipe_manager

Development of a personalized local recipe book. "A personal recipe book without trackers, bloat and ads."

Personal website for managing recipes

Description

TODO

Goals

• creating a simple, local recipe book 📙 directed at domestic use
• simple import from other recipe websites ⤵
• light on data traffic (when using mobile data)
• no annoying trackers, ads and life-changing background stories ❌🗨
• simple HTML, CSS and JS without unnecessary code or wrapper elements 🧾
• can be hosted locally or on a cheap/free server 🖥

Navigating the repo

Recommendation: install the Sass and Sass Live Compiler extensions for VS Code

• index.html is the main page, you should study this first
• if you want to study the recipe database, look into TODO
• if you want to study the search index, look into TODO

Installation

Requirements for local PC

• PHP 7.1 or newer
• Composer dependency manager

Requirements for webserver

• PHP 7.1 or newer
• MySQL
• PDO extension for PHP
• SQLite Extension for PHP
• mbstring xtension for PHP
• .htaccess enabled with rewrite engine

Setup

1. git clone to local folder
2. (not recommended) for newest TNTSearch version: run composer update in the project root and skip to step 4
3. run composer install in the project root
4. copy local folder contents to the root of the webserver
5. create a MySQL database and user
6. (optional) import the last backup to the database
7. save the database credentials to a file TODO
8. done!