Recipe Calculator

[brainpudding]

I have a web site that wants 6 different recipes and they want to be able to change the number of people ti serves and then have all the nigredients change to match. I have NO idea how to do this .. anyone have any suggestions?

 

[DaRNCaT]

it would involve some math- but if you could have the base figures for a one person serve, and make a loop so that if they say they want to serve three then the quantity will be times by 3. Sadly as far as cooking goes- if its an in the oven job the cooking time changes as well.
You should be able to do this with javascript, asp or php- try going to one of the javascripting resource sites if you don't have access to a server side scripting facilty.
I think it's javascript.com Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..

 

[Cheech]

Stick the quantities for one person in a db then when you display the recipe just use this for each quantity

<%
thisQuant = rsYourRecordset.Field(&quot;fieldname&quot;).value * numOfPeople
Response.Write thisQuant
%>

or whatever you need just change the script to suit.

Cheech [Peace][Pipe]
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