Online recipe/cookbook script?

[Jugernot]

Anyone know a good php or perl recipe script online? I need something that allowed it's users to enter a recipe and browse the ones in the current system.

Any ideas?

 

[bunker]

Found a bunch that cost from $50 - $75

Here's the only free one I could find

 

[joshg]

Also this wouldn't be very hard to do yourself... All that you would need is one simple table in a database system...

If you wanted your readers to be able to filter sort and/or search by specific types of ingredients or prepare time, you could go very detailed and provide fields for all of these elements. However, at the most basic you could even go as far as only having around 5 fields in the table:

RecordID - Number/Long/etc (AUTOINCREMENT/AUTONUMBER/ETC) ...ID number of the recipe
User - Text/Char/Varchar/etc. ...user who added recipe
Date_Added - Datetime/etc. ...date and time recipe was submitted
INGREDIENTS - Memo/Blob/etc etc ... ingredients for the recipe
DIRECTIONS - Memo/Blob/etc etc ... directions for preparing the recipe...

That would be extremely simple but somewhat constrincting for user searching and all. If you would like you could of course have fields for Prepare time and individual fields for some type of ingredient list.. it's up to you!

Also you'd probably only really need 3 scripts. One to view / search / etc., one to add new recipes, and one to edit existing (if you want to allow your users to do so). You could of course do other things like giving them some sort of "user home" that shows their customized saved searches, gives them quick links to manage their recipes, etc etc...



(Sorry I'm just spouting off ideas here .. )

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: joshg
Also this wouldn't be very hard to do yourself... All that you would need is one simple table in a database system...

If you wanted your readers to be able to filter sort and/or search by specific types of ingredients or prepare time, you could go very detailed and provide fields for all of these elements. However, at the most basic you could even go as far as only having around 5 fields in the table:

RecordID - Number/Long/etc (AUTOINCREMENT/AUTONUMBER/ETC) ...ID number of the recipe
User - Text/Char/Varchar/etc. ...user who added recipe
Date_Added - Datetime/etc. ...date and time recipe was submitted
INGREDIENTS - Memo/Blob/etc etc ... ingredients for the recipe
DIRECTIONS - Memo/Blob/etc etc ... directions for preparing the recipe...

That would be extremely simple but somewhat constrincting for user searching and all. If you would like you could of course have fields for Prepare time and individual fields for some type of ingredient list.. it's up to you!

Also you'd probably only really need 3 scripts. One to view / search / etc., one to add new recipes, and one to edit existing (if you want to allow your users to do so). You could of course do other things like giving them some sort of "user home" that shows their customized saved searches, gives them quick links to manage their recipes, etc etc...



(Sorry I'm just spouting off ideas here .. )

If only I had the time... I built a php/mysql movie database system last year for catalogging all of my movies in which I implements most of what you mentioned. I even built a user sign in system that customized the view for each user. Alas... I don't have that kind of time anymore. If I can't find something free, I'll probably end up buying something. I'm starting a Low Carb dieting website and I'm trying to make it a place where users like me, who are low carbers, can come to talk to other members, browse recipes, post links, and just have a community type atmosphere.

I've also thought about something like PHP NUke, but I think at this point that is a little too large.