My Budget
Wednesday, 1. April 2009, 21:01:19
I needed a project to help me learn php & the result so far is: My Budget a site where you can record your income & outgoings. I started work on it in mid February & I've been extremely anal in using it to track every penny from the first of January onwards. I've got to the point where I've been using it without having to make any changes to the code for a number of weeks now so I am now going to declare it, "ready for use".
I'm sure a lot of people are feeling the pinch & I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "keep track of your budget" more than once. Up until last year I was totally oblivious about money, I had no idea about the cost of anything. I started keeping a track of my spending on a spreadsheet & found it really useful & I think it is a very worthwhile exercise. Just being aware of something is the first step to keeping it under control, you can't make an informed choice if you are not informed.
It's pretty simple so I haven't bothered with any instructions yet, but I will if anyone needs the help. Quite simply you record transactions: a date, an amount, notes if you want to & whether it is an income or an outgoing. Each transaction can be tagged (I've shamelessly duplicated the functionality of the tagging system used here at MyOpera), you can then view your total spending habits by month or by tag.
You can also set up regular transactions so you don't need to manually record the bills that are the same every month. I really struggled to come up with a form to easily specify the regularity of such payments but I believe I have come up with a pretty good solution.
It's been a fun project & it has certainly increased my respect for the Opera community devs who have a far more complex beast to deal with.
I'm sure a lot of people are feeling the pinch & I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "keep track of your budget" more than once. Up until last year I was totally oblivious about money, I had no idea about the cost of anything. I started keeping a track of my spending on a spreadsheet & found it really useful & I think it is a very worthwhile exercise. Just being aware of something is the first step to keeping it under control, you can't make an informed choice if you are not informed.
It's pretty simple so I haven't bothered with any instructions yet, but I will if anyone needs the help. Quite simply you record transactions: a date, an amount, notes if you want to & whether it is an income or an outgoing. Each transaction can be tagged (I've shamelessly duplicated the functionality of the tagging system used here at MyOpera), you can then view your total spending habits by month or by tag.
You can also set up regular transactions so you don't need to manually record the bills that are the same every month. I really struggled to come up with a form to easily specify the regularity of such payments but I believe I have come up with a pretty good solution.
It's been a fun project & it has certainly increased my respect for the Opera community devs who have a far more complex beast to deal with.
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