OpenEats FAQ
What is OpenEats?
OpenEats is an Open Source Recipe Management Website where you are free to share your recipes with others, or search for new recipes
What is OpenSource?
Open Source is a way of sharing and giving back. This site is Open Source which means anyone can take the code the site has been created in and use it and change it any way they want. To learn more you can read about OpenSource
What is the Symfony Framework?
Symfony is a great PHP framework that allows people to code PHP websites quick, and effectively with out having to build everything from the ground up. To learn more visit it their site symfony
What does "store and stored" mean?
The link above a recipe labled "store" allows you to "bookmark" that recipe so that you will never lose it. It creates a link to that recipe under your user profile in your "recipe box" When you see the link "store" replaced with "strored" that means that recipe has been stored in your recipe box. To unstore a recipe, go to your user profile then your recipe box. You will see a link next to each recipe you have "stored" that says "unstore" click that link and it will be removed from your "recipe box"
What is the difference between comments, suggestions and notes?
On all recipes pages at the bottom you will see three links, comments, suggestions and notes.
Comments: The comments link is used to leave a comment about the recipe such as "this recipe was great I will make it again", or "don't make this recipe it will make you fat"
Suggestions: The suggestions link is to leave feedback for how you changed the recipe. Not each recipe may suit your taste and you may modify it to make it work more for you. Use the suggestion are to share with others on how you changed a recipe along with the results
Notes: Notes is a private area for you to make notes on a recipe. Only you will be able to see the notes for each recipe. One way to use this area is if you thing a recipe works really well with a certian side dish and you want to make a note of that information
How do I report a recipe that is in bad taste?
Since this is the world wide web, there may be a time you stumble across a recipe that is in "bad taste" or is not 100% compelete yet. If you do, you will find a link at the bottom of each recipe page called "Report to Administrator" This will bring this recipe to the attention of the Administrator of the stie. Then the Administrator will decided what to do with the offending recipe.