Friday, August 31, 2012

Budget Buddy Homepage


After a half hour of messing with the css, I finally got the buttons in my home page to center well. This is the main home page of budget buddy, if you have accounts it displays them like the above and if it doesn't then it displays the following error message:


All in all, the login, signup, and now home page are functioning correctly, now I just have to make everything else! So excited!


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Budget Buddy in php

https://github.com/EJEHardenberg/BudgetBuddy


Well I've tried to do this project a few times already, and most of the time the method of storing the data was the primary inconvenience in java and c#. But with php I can use mysql to easily store anything and everything.

So I'm modeling it like an app, and this is what I have so far. A clean interface, and a sign up and login page that are working. Well, I'm currently working on making the log-in secure but besides that its all good. This has been my baby for the last 2 days. And after some CSS magic and stack overflow results I fixed an error that had stuck me and I can keep working.

Word for the wise, do NOT store hash's into a binary type sql field. Binary types mess with strings and can cause string comparisons to result in errors, I learned this the hard way over the past few days until I stumbled onto a small comment on a stack overflow page about hashing.