The Idea for creating the Recipe Binder Online website

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 other blog, about how technology is effecting our lives, which talks about the a new way to learn (A way to learn: how technology is helping us learn).

If anyone is interested in knowing what resources were used for making this new framework based website Recipe Binder Online, please indicate so in the comments and one will try and share the details.

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The frist recipe to be made 'Kale Chane'

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 cha...

Now I can cook! a little.

Yummy's recipe binder Well the recent events, where we had to stay at home, had some positive outcomes. I learnt how to cook! My wife taught me some of her recipes. My earlier cooking skills were limited to making an omelette or making tea. Now I know some more cooking. Here is a list of what I can treat my guests or myself with. It is empowering! All these are nicely collected in my recipe binder. You may reach it by clicking the collage image on top of this page.😋 Quick and easy dal Karela rings Matar wale chawal Rajma Aloo shimla mirch Arhar dal Paneer kulcha Go to recipebinderonline.com for many more recipes and binders. Better still use the site for uploading and keeping your recipes in your very own binders. If you want to share your binder with others, just share the binder link

Building Recipe Binder Online: Fixing bootstrap panel height in Yii2

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.

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