Ty Clifford
51ee4ecb5a
Finished the planner end to end. Corrected rollover and yearly accounting, recurring targets, savings rules, and targeted dormant restorations. Added editing/deletion for income, expenses, targets, and categories. Rebuilt dashboard, analytics, calendar, settings, exports, authentication, and responsive mobile UI. Added original artwork at [financial-flow.png](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/budget/public/assets/images/financial-flow.png), generated with built-in Imagegen using an abstract financial-momentum landscape prompt. Added [self-test.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/budget/scripts/self-test.php). Verification passed: automated accounting/export tests, full browser workflow, responsive 390px layout, light/dark themes, and no console errors. Tested with FrankenPHP v1.12.4. Live Mailgun delivery was not attempted without credentials.
Neon Ledger
A self-contained monthly financial planner built with PHP, SQLite, JavaScript, and HTML5. It tracks rolling budget remainders, income withholding, bill progress, categorized expenses, dormant savings, calendar due dates, comparisons, and Mailgun reminders from an administrator dashboard.
Requirements
- PHP 8.1 or newer
- PDO SQLite extension
- Optional: PDO MySQL for MySQL/MariaDB migration
- HTTPS is recommended outside local development
No Composer or Node dependencies are required.
Start locally
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 router.php
Open http://127.0.0.1:8080 and create the first administrator account. The SQLite database is created automatically at storage/database/budget.sqlite.
Run the accounting and export smoke test with:
php scripts/self-test.php
For Apache, use public/ as the document root and enable mod_rewrite.
Core behavior
- Each month has a manual starting income and an explicit previous-month remainder.
- Positive remaining funds can roll into the next month. Use Recalculate to refresh an existing month's rollover after changing the prior month.
- Income and expense rules can move a percentage or fixed amount into the dormant account automatically.
- Dormant deposits reduce usable funds; restorations can return to monthly income or be tagged to a specific budget target.
- Payments linked to a budget item progress its paid and owing totals.
- Monthly and yearly recurring items materialize from the latest matching series, even when a month was skipped.
- Annual fresh-income totals exclude rollover so carried money is not counted twice.
- JSON exports use the
neon-ledger/budget-plannerversion 1 format and exclude credentials, 2FA secrets, and the Mailgun API key.
Bill reminders
Configure Mailgun, recipient, alert windows, and reminder times in Settings. Run the reminder worker every minute:
* * * * * cd /path/to/neon-ledger && php scripts/send-reminders.php
Use php scripts/send-reminders.php --force to scan immediately. Duplicate reminders for the same bill, recipient, window, and day are suppressed.
Optional MySQL/MariaDB mode
SQLite is the default and is always sufficient. The Import & export screen can create the MySQL schema, copy all SQLite records, and update config/database.json in one step. The original SQLite file remains untouched as a fallback snapshot.
Create the target database and user before running the transfer. The PHP runtime must include pdo_mysql.
Backup
Use Export JSON for a portable planner package. For a direct SQLite backup, copy storage/database/budget.sqlite while the app is stopped.
Security
- Passwords use PHP's current
PASSWORD_DEFAULTalgorithm. - All state-changing forms use CSRF tokens.
- Optional TOTP two-factor authentication works with standard authenticator apps.
- The application should be served with
public/as its web root.