ricardosncosta / nugest-api

Nugest

A basic web menu suggester written in PHP and Laravel 5.1. It uses machine learning to suggest dishes based on past experiences.

NEW: A RESTful version of this project is being developed. You may have a look at the code checking out the API branch for the server-side implementation and nugest-web repository to check the client-side code, powered by AngularJS.

Notes

app/Meal

Recommendations are calculated based on a month worth of meals (30 days x 2 meals = 60 meals), having preference for the most consumed dish(es) while trying not to repeat any of last meal's dish (7 days x 2 meals = 14 meals). If all dishes are repeated then the least used will be recommended in order to create some balance between most/less used dishes. Null is returned if no meals are found (usually due to lack of data to compute).

app/Http/Controllers/Controller

A setFlashMessage($type, $message) function was added to make it easier to set a message along with twitter's bootstrap .class-type, e.g.: $this->setFlashMessage('danger', 'Oops! Something went wrong...');

app/Http/Controllers/Auth/Auth controller

Only Signin and Signout built-in traits are being used since I needed to costumize user registration action.

app/Http/Controllers/User/User controller

Email confirmation expires after 7 days as a security measure. Only valid confirmations will affect the user and be persisted to database.

Custom validators

• checkauth: Checks if given field value matches encrypted user password. Mainly used when updating important information such as password or email address.

Tests

Unit/functional tests run using SQLite's memory database to speed the process.