This is a personal project I initiated to help my friends and family during the gift-giving season. Every time Christmas rolls around, I’ve been asked to create and hand out a wish-list of items I’d like as gifts. I could never come up with a full list on time, and there are always things I would forget to add.

To solve this problem, I created a customizable wish-list. I stuck with a basic design and coded the site with PHP and MySQL. Other online wish-lists typically only allowed users to add items based specifically on what each site sold, and I wanted my wish-list to feature a little more flexibility.

I coded in session-based user authentication, user groups (administrative access to control other users), a file manager (to upload and link to images), WYSIWIG interface, and the ability to add, edit, and delete wish-list items.