Wiki Hacking

A while back I started running a wiki on my web server for personal note taking. After trying out a few types, I settled on a full-blown MediaWiki installation. Since then I've done a little hacking to make it act more like I want.

Recipe Book

Download: RecipeBook.php.txt

At one point I wiki-a-fied my recipe book so I could access it from anywhere. In the process, I wrote up an extension to format my recipes as if they were still on recipe cards. It adds a couple of "tags", so to use it you just write up a page like:

<recipe serves="3-4" from="Cory Lueninghoener">
(Note: This should probably be doubled)
<ingredients>
* 1 lb ground beef
* 1 cup chopped onion
* 1 14.5 oz can diced tomato
* 1 16 oz can kidney beans
* 1 8 oz can tomato sauce
* Garlic powder
* Chili powder
* Basil
</ingredients>
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# Brown beef and onion. Drain.
# Combine everything in cooker
# Cook all day
# Eat!
</recipe>
    

And you'll get something that looks like: