Format of an Online Recipe

Some standard format of presenting the recipe data online was needed, should we want to provide a good searchable online cookbook. After some discussion and debate the following format was employed:

• (Title - webpage tab)
• Recipe Name
• Recipe Body
  • Ingredients
  • Preparation
  • Authors comments or notes
• Recipe Submitted by
• Recipe Submitted date
• Comments or location on any island cookbooks the recipe appeared in
• Appendix linking recipe to rest of online cookbook

This simple format allows standard searching between island cookbooks. As a rule, recipes are kept in the format they are submitted in, however the actual submission process should attempt to format the data into a standard searchable form. This online form works great, and is simple to use. This system also collects the category or chapter the author would like the recipe placed in. Data collected from this system is formated and emailed to the webmaster and any member of the cookbook committee who wants it. This process also obscures the email address that the recipe is sent to, thus 'spammers' can not obtain the email address. This obscuring of the email address is handled by using a .php script instead of .html code.

Please speak up if you have any input on this topic... (or want to receive recipes when they are submitted)