Welcome!
What is Recommend?
Recommend is a generic recommendation engine written in PHP5 and PEAR for use on websites. Recommendation engines are often used by
e-commerce services to offer related products to a shopper. Recommend takes these concepts and abstracts them so you can offer
recommendations for anything on your website. Recommend is a tool for web programmers.
What Recommend is not.
Recommend is not an e-commerce solution. It is just a piece of a much larger puzzle. Recommend has no gui. Its definately not plug-and-play.
How does it work?
Recommend keeps track of users and different statistics that you set up. Using the Recommend PHP5 objects, your application can record events that the user
performs on your website. Then by using weights and heurstic rules specific to your particular web application, Recommend will determine which "item" or set
of "items" to offer to the user. These are returned as PHP5 objects so how you used the results are completly customizable.
©Copyright 2012 Sam Washburn, Licensed under the GPL license.