Expiration Management & Cooking Suggestion (EMCS) is a web-based prototype system, which helps you track food expiration date, create shopping list and give suggestions you on cooking. It was designed to aim at reducing household food waste. You can use web browser to access to the service through the following URL: https://marshal1.tech (deprecated)
In left navigation bar, you can change the current showing place. There are four places that you can store your food: “Refrigerator”, “Freezing Chamber”, “Pantry” and “Other”. And on the top tabs, you can choose to view food in blocks or table.
While you inputting your food name, the system will use ajax to find the most similar food category automatically. You can also click the category selection to choose the right one. If you type “– “after your food name, it will become “uncategorized”. Meanwhile, a food storage shelf life table will be showed on the right of screen, which give you advice on food storage.
This page recommend recipes based on your food in storage. You can also view most matched ingredient to gain some cooking ideas.(data from Epicurious)
You can change your password, email and profile information. Also, you can customise notification preference. (Check more details in the ./design/UserGuide.docx)
There are examples of two different notifications.
You can access to the admin page in ./admin.php to view system information
This system uses responsive design, which is compatible on multiple devices
This project is my coursework project in 2018. It also contains a questionnaire survey and user data analysis, relevent docs can be found in ./design folder. Some functions may not work on Localhost in Windows, because (1) the system is built to compatible with Linux online server from Hostinger.com (2) Atrigger function requires web server (3) Google Chrome Messaging service requires SSL cerificate (https://) (4) It requires several dependencies packages (5) You may failed to import DB sql backup file due to its size is bigger than your default setting (6) Fp-growth function is time-consuming, which may reach max execution time of your default setting