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3:16 with Alena Holligan

There's a lot more to a recipe then a title and source. In this video we'll be adding the rest of our property to the displayRecipe method, using a simple easy to read format.

Code Sample

public static function displayRecipe($recipe)
{
    $output = "";
    $output .= $recipe->getTitle() . " by " . $recipe->getSource();
    $output .= "\n";
    $output .= implode(", ",$recipe->getTags());
    $output .= "\n\n";
    foreach ($recipe->getIngredients() as $ing) {
        $output .= $ing["amount"] . " " . $ing["measure"] . " " . $ing["item"];
        $output .= "\n";
    }
    $output .= "\n";
    $output .= implode("\n", $recipe->getInstructions());
    $output .= "\n";
    $output .= $recipe->getYield();
    return $output;
}
  • 0:00

    Currently our display recipe uses only the title and source properties and

  • 0:04

    returns those to the function call as a single formatted string.

  • 0:09

    The first thing we need to do is start an output variable instead of returning this

  • 0:13

    line directly we're gonna add that to the output variable.

  • 0:25

    We can then return our output variable.

  • 0:32

    Will keep the title and source as our first line.

  • 0:35

    Then we'll add a new line.

  • 0:40

    We'll use our concatenation and,we'll add a new line character.

  • 0:44

    Our next line will be the tags.

  • 0:57

    We're gonna want to use an implode.

  • 1:05

    We'll separate these with a comma.

  • 1:08

    Let's add another line break.

  • 1:13

    Now we can add our ingredients.

  • 1:17

    Formatting for our ingredients is a little more complicated.

  • 1:20

    So let's loop through the ingredients and format each line.

  • 1:37

    First we'll add the amount.

  • 1:47

    And then we'll add our measure.

  • 1:55

    And finally, our item.

  • 2:01

    We also ,want to add a new line after each item.

  • 2:10

    Let's add our instructions using implode again.

  • 2:20

    This time we'll separate with a line break.

  • 2:30

    Let's add another line break.

  • 2:38

    And now our yield.

  • 2:47

    Let's take a look at this by running our code.

  • 2:51

    This looks pretty good let's add a couple more line breaks.

  • 2:57

    I want an extra one before our ingredients and an extra line before our instructions.

  • 3:12

    Pull this up and try again.

  • 3:14

    Great. That looks much better.

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