ingredient-parser

This PHP parser takes basic string and tries to extract items such as Quanity, Units, Ingreident, and any addtional notes. This goes hand in hand with recipe-parser but this ingredient parser can be easily intergrated into any recipe parsing solution.

Usage

After adding this repo to your project you only need to call one PHP function.

$ReturnArray = ParserIndgredient($IngredientString);

This function accepts a string similar to:

• 1 c. white rice
• 1 lb. shrimp, peeled and deveined

and has the possible return values:

array(4) { 
    ["quantity"]=> string(1) "1" 
    ["unit"]=> string(3) "lb." 
    ["info"]=> string(19) "peeled and deveined" 
    ["name"]=> string(6) "shrimp" 
}

How to contribute

Inlcuded the repo is ingredient-parser-tester.php. This contains a simple way to add example ingredient strings and confirm their returned array outputs. ingreident-parser.php also contains an array of units. This will need to updated if unknown unit is found.