cookbook VS docker-grocy

I have Cookbook installed on Nextcloud. https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cookbook

Super handy, if grocy had an option to retrieve recipes from this one: https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/

How does this compare to something like nextcloud's cookbook?

apps.nextcloud.com doesn't have a 'recipes' app; a search for 'recipes' only returns the Cookbook app.

I use Nextcloud Cookbook which comes very useful. You can import recipes from a variety of websites and uses an open source format which make it easy for migration. The difficult part is to find a Nextcloud server offering it, but I bet there plenty out there offering the service for free.

Or you rewrite your own Dockerfile with all the steps to install the desired software. And if you get stuck, you can still look at the official files: https://github.com/grocy/grocy-docker or the Linuxserver.io ones: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy

I do run my test grocy server within docker https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy, still figuring out how to backup the db ... I assume the grocy docker will import each recipe via an URL?

The simpler way to start it in Docker is using a prebuilt image, for example https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy (there are others, do a search on github)

I was hoping to get it running without having to use the docker as I followed the links to both grocy/grocy-docker and linuxserver/docker-grocy, but I didn't really get how to get this running on my shared hosting that way. But then again, if someone can help me with that, it's fine by me as well.

I know that it is possible to do this (info already linked in another post) however likely a better solution would be to use the docker version of the server.

Not very hard, you can easily install it with docker app on synology and follow the install guide : https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy If you really don't understand, you can use the different tutorials on this site, very well done, it will give you a base to install grocy : https://mariushosting.com

It's not a "binary" or "executable", it's about what the PHP runtime (to be exact PDO_SQLITE) uses / was compiled with. Also asked/discussed here and (partly) there and I still don't know a way to change this at runtime (not grocy specific, generally PHP).