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While building Recipe Binder Online the list of recipes are displayed on the landing page in bootstrap panels. These were of varied height and therefore were not giving an orderly look when displayed. The website has been built using the  Yii2 framework . Making the panel heights fixed was a possible solution. This was done using the following resource: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24450010/how-to-make-bootstrap-panel-body-with-fixed-height This resolved the issue and the new panels look as shown in the image below.

While building Recipe Binder Online an issue cropped up. The Update and Delete buttons were visible to not logged in users. The website has been built using the Yii2 framework . See my earlier post on the reasons for using this framework ( The Idea for creating the Recipe Binder Online website ) The changes in code to hide the update and delete buttons in the view file were done with help of the following resources https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33254870/how-to-disable-a-button-in-yii2 The image of the same web-page after the changes:

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Why not show the binders made by users to everyone. Makes it easy to sift through and use one which appeals to them.  I keeping with the tag line of Recipe Binder Online ' Never lose a recipe and share your joy! '.😇 See this new feature here.

'Dad, show me the original handwritten recipe' my daughter said walking into my room. 'The snikerdoodles cookies I put in the oven are not rising' she continued. Sure enough she spotted a typo in the recipe I had uploaded from her hand written recipe book. I acknowledged my mistake, looking sheepish. Lesson learnt, upload recipes with utmost care, check in case of doubt! The situation was retrieved by adding the required extra flour in the remaining mixture. The image above is that of the finally cooked cookies. The turned out to be quite yummy. You can see the snickerdoodles recipe here .

My daughter made the first ever recipe from Recipe Binder Online . This was the recipe Basic recipe for Kale Chane . It came out really well. The photo above is of the resulting dish. Ingredients 2 onions, 3 to four tomatoes, 1 inch ginger, 10 cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp ajwain, 1 tsp jeera, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp heaped dhania powder, 1/2 tsp green chillies/red chillies, salt to taste, 1/2 tsp haldi Method  Heat the oil, put in ajwain and jeera and heat till it splutters, add onion paste, and fry until light brown, add ginger garlic paste, and little water and fry for another 3 to 5 mins, add tomato puree/paste, fry till it leaves oil. Add haldi, dhania powder, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala to paste. Simultaneously add boiled channa with water and boil at low heat for 5 to 10 mins. Also take a few chanas and mash them to a paste and add back to the mixture and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.  About boiling the chanas: Soak channa overn

There was this need to create a framework based website. My wife had a notebook of handwritten recipes from our younger days. My daughter carried one along, which was her mainstay, when she went abroad for studies. So a recipes site suggested itself.  Recipes are of interest to most of us. So the idea: why not make an online website where binders of recipes can be created? This idea came up on 23 Feb 2019. Yii2 framework was selected. Handysolver.com an IT Services company run by my son and daughter-in-law uses this framework, so one knew where to go to when stuck! This was a good decision, on hindsight. My son suggested a wonderful book by Larry Ullman . With this book and some others one took the plunge. The website was launched on Thursday 14 Mar 2019. And now this blog to share the experience. Having delved in various website making technologies over the years was a help. However learning how to use a framework was tough. Here is a link to a post on my othe