Diet & Meal Planner

Diet & Meal Planner — Overview

A ready-to-deploy PHP and MySQL diet and meal planner. Add a client with their height, date of birth, activity level, goal and diet preference; record a weigh-in and the app works out BMI and an estimate of daily energy use from standard published formulas. Set the calorie and macro targets you judge right, then build a plan day by day from a 125-food database — every line shows its calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat, and each day totals against the target. Print the plan or send the client their private link, where they see the active plan and log their own weight.

Who This Is For

• Dietitians and nutritionists who build meal plans in spreadsheets and send them as photos or PDFs.
• Gyms and fitness trainers who want to give members a plan and track their weight without a monthly app fee.
• Freelance developers setting up a planning tool for a local clinic or gym.
• Students who need a complete, explainable PHP + MySQL project on diet planning or nutrition management.

This is a planning and record-keeping tool for a professional, not a medical device and not a source of medical advice: it does not diagnose, prescribe diets for medical conditions, or generate plans automatically — you choose the foods. The energy figures are estimates from population formulas, shown for adults only. It has one staff login (clients use a private link rather than accounts), no public website, no online payments and no appointment booking — the Diet & Meal Planner Pro edition adds the website, programmes for sale with Razorpay checkout, client accounts and a blog. No barcode scanning, no micronutrients beyond fibre, and no mobile app. The shipped food list covers basic ingredients; cooked dishes such as idli or dal tadka are added as your own foods.

Key Features

Numbers you can check by hand

BMI is weight divided by height squared. Resting energy uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation and daily use multiplies it by an activity factor. The app shows the working, limits these estimates to adults, and leaves the target to you — the suggestion only pre-fills the field.

A food list with a clean licence

The 125 foods and their values come from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy), which is in the public domain. Every row names the exact record it came from, so nothing in the database is copied from a commercial or copyrighted table.

A plan keeps the values it was built with

Each line of a plan stores its own copy of the food's name and nutrient amounts. Editing or deleting a food later never changes a plan that has already been printed or sent.

Rules enforced where it matters

A client can have only one active plan — the database itself refuses a second, even if two people click Activate at the same moment. A client's weight is one entry per day, and a food outside the client's diet preference is refused, not just hidden.

The client's side without accounts

Each client gets a private link with a random key. It opens their active plan and a weight form — nothing else — and you can replace the link in one click if it is ever shared by mistake.

What's Included

The full, unobfuscated PHP source and a MySQL schema file ready to import, with the default admin login seeded. Setup takes about 10-15 minutes on any standard PHP + MySQL hosting.

Technical Requirements

PHP 7.4+ (tested on PHP 8.5), MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10+ (tested on MySQL 8.0), and the mysqli extension. Plain PHP, no framework dependency. Every form is CSRF-protected and all database access uses prepared statements.

Exact Buy & Setup Process

Step 1 — Buy Now

Click Buy Now, enter your name, email, and phone, and pay via Razorpay (UPI, cards, netbanking, wallets).

Step 2 — Get Your Download

The download link appears instantly and is emailed to you — valid 7 days, up to 5 downloads.

Step 3 — Upload and Configure

Extract the zip, upload to your hosting, create a MySQL database, and update the four values in config.php.

Step 4 — Import and Log In

Import sql/schema.sql via phpMyAdmin, then log in (admin / admin123) and change the password from the top bar.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it create a diet plan automatically?

No. You build the plan by choosing foods and quantities; the app does the arithmetic and checks it against the target. That keeps the professional judgement with you.

Where do the nutrition values come from?

From USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, April 2018), a public-domain database. Each food shows the record it came from. You can edit any value or add your own foods from a label or a recipe calculation.

Are Indian foods included?

Basic ingredients are: roti, naan, paratha, rice, dals (lentils, moong, toor), chana, rajma, lobia, besan, atta, suji, sabudana, curd, ghee, buffalo milk, vegetables such as bhindi, lauki and karela, and common fruit. Paneer and cooked dishes such as idli or sambar are not in the shipped list — add them as your own foods.

Can my clients log in?

They do not need to. Each client gets a private link that opens their active plan and a weight form. There are no client passwords to manage.

Is it suitable for a college project?

Yes — it has a clear database (clients, weigh-ins, foods, plans, plan items), two kinds of user, formulas you can explain, and rules enforced at the database level. Declare the licensed base and add your own feature, as your college requires.

Does it give medical advice?

No. It is a planning tool. The printed plan carries a standing note saying so, which you can edit in config.php.

Is there a version with a website and online payments?

Yes — the Diet & Meal Planner Pro edition includes everything here plus a public website for the practice, programmes for sale with Razorpay checkout or manual payment, client accounts with email access links, an orders panel with CSV export, coupons, a blog and enquiries.

Is the commercial license included?

Yes — every purchase includes a genuine commercial license for your own business or client work.

Is it tested on PHP 8?

Yes — every page was tested end to end on PHP 8.5 with MySQL 8, including bad-input and concurrent-request checks.

Do you offer a refund?

Purchases are non-refundable once paid — see the refund policy. If something is genuinely wrong, raise an issue from your orders page and we will help fix it.

Is support included?

Yes — email support is included with every purchase.