Speaker List Cache Generation

rebuild-cache.php

<?php
// this will read in all the speakers, sort them by date, then store in a file for use later
$speakerList = [
    'speaker-file',
];

$speakers_all = [];
foreach($speakerList as $speaker) {
    $speakers_all[$speaker] = include_once("./speakers/{$speaker}.php");
    $speakers_all[$speaker]['bullet-points'] = text2bullets($speakers_all[$speaker]['bullet-points']);
}

// sort speakers by date/time
foreach($speakers_all as $slug => $speaker) {
    $timeslot[$slug] = $speaker['datetime'];
}
array_multisort($timeslot, SORT_ASC, $speakers_all);

file_put_contents(__DIR__.'/_speaker_list.txt', json_encode($speakers_all));

echo "<h1>".count($speakers_all)." Speakers Cached</h1>";

function text2bullets($text) {
    $lines = preg_split("/\r\n|\n|\r/", $text);
    foreach($lines as $key => $line){
        $lines[$key] = '<li>'.$line.'</li>';
    }
    return implode(PHP_EOL, $lines);
}

speaker-file.php

<?php
// this is data needed for each speaker
return [

    'title' => 'xxx',
    'datetime' => '2017-12-09 07:00:00',
    'track' => 'track_1',
    'video' => '',

    'bullet-points' => <<<EOQ

EOQ
,
    'description' => '',

    'bonus_offer' => '',
    'bonus_url' => '',
    'bonus_desc' => '',

    'name' => 'xxx',
    'site_name' => '',
    'site_url' => '',
    'bio' => <<<EOQ

EOQ

];

speakers.php

<?php
// this is a portion of the file included on every page

$speakerList = file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/_speaker_list.txt');
if (empty($speakerList)) {
    die("<h1>Must Build Speaker Cache");
}

$speakers_all = json_decode($speakerList, true);

This is great clever method, thanks.
from Quora https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-still-use-pure-PHP-if-there-are-so-many-incredible-PHP-frameworks-like-Laravel/answer/Bill-Wheeler-4?share=13ecec34&srid=nrkL

Good Logic
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-still-use-pure-PHP-if-there-are-so-many-incredible-PHP-frameworks-like-Laravel

That's so helpful for a code newbie, like me. Thanks so much for sharing!

Thanks for sharing