The recipegen.cpp program givin the appropriate input files will generate a random recipe output to std out. This uses the C++ rand() function. The website is built with php and HTML5. The website grabs a random .txt file generated by recipegen.cpp and displays it on the website depending on what catagory of food the user chose.

cat.txt, special.txt, Steak.txt, Cake.txt, and ingrediants.txt. For users you want to create their own random foods, Follow the format in the Files.

"Ingrediant_Name" "minVal" "maxVal" "unit of measure" "tag1" tag2" ... ";" ALL Ingrediant list must end with ; Steak.txt and Cake.txt have a list of potential ingrediants that the program will choose from to create the recipe.

The program grabs a random number of ingrediants and a random quantity of them and outputs them. The program always choose one ingrediant from special.txt to add to the recipe.