Welcome to Pseudopotential Library

This is the guide for managing the website https://pseudopotentiallibrary.org/ and its components. Please refrain from editing any files outside of the includes and recipes folders.

Managing Recipe Content

Inside the recipes folder is a very particular structure pattern. This structure is key to having data appear properly on the website.

To create a new active element on the periodic table, add a new folder to the root recipes folder with the standard atomic symbol of the element. Ex: recipes/N

To include information about the element, in the root folder of the element, include a text file. The name of this file is irrelevant. Ex: recipes/N/info.txt

To include recipes for the element, create a new folder in the root folder of the element, titled the display name of the recipe. Include all relevant recipe files in the root folder of the recipe, to have them displayed as a group on the web page. To include a contributor name for the recipe, include a file named author.txt, this name is specific and important.

recipes/N/FirstRecipe/
recipes/N/FirstRecipe/author.txt
recipes/N/FirstRecipe/firstFile.txt
recipes/N/FirstRecipe/supportingFile.txt

The folder structure will resemble the diagram below:

recipes/
├── Ar/
│   ├── the main recipe/
│   │   ├── author.txt
│   │   └── main recipe file.txt
│   ├── another recipe/
│   │   ├── author.txt
│   │   ├── main recipe file.txt
│   │   └── supporting recipe file.txt
│   └── backup recipe/
│       ├── informative file.txt
│       ├── main recipe file.txt
│       ├── supporting recipe1.txt
│       └── supporting recipe file.txt
├── C/
│   ├── info.txt
│   ├── recipe 1/
│   │   ├── author.txt
│   │   └── main recipe file.txt
│   └── recipe 2/
│       ├── main recipe file.txt
│       ├── supporting recipe1.txt
│       ├── supporting recipe2.txt
│       └── supporting recipe3.txt
└── N/
    ├── info.txt
    └── recipe/
        ├── author.txt
        ├── main recipe file.txt
        ├── supporting recipe1.txt
        └── supporting recipe2.txt

Updating Index Page Content

Inside the includes folder there are three PHP files, which are intended to be used for adding content to the index page. Please refrain from editing the index file itself. HTML, Markdown, or plain text can be entered into these, and they will display on the index page.

• Above will display its file contents above the periodic table, but below the page title.
• Middle will display its file contents below the periodic table, but above the recipe results.
• Below will display its file contents below the recipe results at the bottom of the page.