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Populating the Recipes

3:15 with Alena Holligan

Now that we have our recipe class complete, we’ll create all the recipe objects for our collection.

Ways to pull the recipes

  1. Typed straight into code (single or individual files)
  2. Read from individual text files
  3. Stored in a Database
  4. Pulled from an API / JSON feed

Note: This course uses option 1 with a single file.

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    I hope you enjoyed exploring your magical powers so far. 0:00
    In the words of Terry Pratchett, it's still magic, 0:04
    even if you know how it's done. 0:07
    We still have more to learn. 0:09
    In the next section, we'll be grouping our objects into collections 0:10
    by creating a cookbook for our recipes. 0:14
    To do that, we'll need some recipes to work with. 0:17
    Plus, I promised you some of my own recipes. 0:20
    So how do we load up a bunch of recipe objects? 0:23
    There are many different ways to load these recipes or 0:27
    any other data into our program. 0:30
    Most likely, you would want to use some sort of database or 0:32
    pull from a json feed or something similar. 0:36
    Data storage and feeds are more than we need to get into in this course. 0:39
    So instead I set everything up for you in a single recipe.php file. 0:44
    Grab that file from the download section, and 0:49
    let's get some recipes loaded into the project. 0:52
    We want to stay organized. 0:55
    Since this is a helper file, we want to put it in a new folder. 0:57
    So let's add a new folder called inc. 1:01
    This is short for include. 1:06
    Then we'll upload the recipes.php file. 1:09
    Let's take a look at this recipes file. 1:17
    At the top, I've included a DocBlock comment area that gives you some notes, 1:21
    as well as a list of all the recipes in this file. 1:26
    You can scroll down and 1:29
    see these recipes have been added just like we added recipe1. 1:30
    You're welcome to add your own recipes to this file as well. 1:34
    Let's load these recipes into our project. 1:39
    Back in cookbook.php, we'll add a new include. 1:42
    And voila, you have a bunch of recipes ready to use. 1:53
    Let's clean up the recipes from this file and 1:57
    display one of the full recipes from this new file instead. 1:59
    Now let's run this script. 2:15
    Great, we see our Belgian waffle recipe by Alena Holligan. 2:23
    All this work is making me hungry but 2:28
    we're not quite ready to start cooking yet. 2:31
    You're doing great. 2:34
    We have a recipe class and all our recipe objects loaded. 2:35
    We have a render class for rendering our recipes in the desired formats, and 2:40
    we've taken on the role of magician. 2:45
    That's quite the accomplishment. 2:47
    At this point our recipes are basically a random stack of cards. 2:49
    That makes it really hard to find anything we actually want, or 2:53
    even to know what we have. 2:58
    In the next section, we'll create a collection of objects 3:00
    that can help us organize and make use of these recipes. 3:03
    Man does not live on coding alone, so take a break and recharge. 3:07
    But hurry back, I'm excited to show you my cookbook collection. 3:11

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