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[murra1a]

Hi,

 

I have 3 tables:

ingredient, recipes, onhand

 

ingredient is 2 fields: key, name

 

recipes is several fields, important one is ingredients which is keys from ingredients table separated by commas eg 2,3,15,99

this essentially connects the list of ingredients in the recipe to ingredient names in the 1st table

 

the third table is a list of ingredients I have on hand and their keys from the ingredient table.

 

 

What I want to do is to search the recipe table for recipes I can make with the ingredients I have on hand

and recipes for which I am missing only a few ingredients

 

I am completely confused about how to do this

Thanks

Ryan

[webent]

It would help if you would post at minimum your table structure...

 

Also, I'm thinking an "ingredient_to_recipe" table would work nicely, just from what I can understand without seeing the table structure.

[murra1a]

Here is a sample of the three tables

 

Ingredients:

Key Ingredient

1    Bacon

2    Tomato

3    Lettuce

4    Bread

5    Eggs

 

Recipes:

Recipe                    Ingredients

BLT                        1,2,3,4

Bacon and Eggs      1,5

 

OnHand:

StuffOnHand        IngredientKey

Bacon                  1

Tomato                2

Eggs                    5

 

I want to output:

1. That I can make bacon and eggs

2. That I can make a BLT if I get Lettuce and Bread

 

I hope that is more clear

Thanks