MyWall

A corkboard for people who don't trust Google Docs.

"What if Pinterest, but it's just sticky notes, and also I wrote my own PHP framework for some reason."

What even is this?

mywall is a personal pinboard. You sign up, you get your own infinite wall, and you can pin little index-card notes to it — drag them around, zoom in and out, write your deepest thoughts in 20-character titles. Anyone can visit yourusername and admire your wall, but only you can rearrange the furniture.

It's basically a physical corkboard, except digital, except it's held together by hex2bin() calls and vibes.

The stack (a.k.a. "why is there a whole framework in vendor/")

• Backend: PHP, running on top of a homemade micro-framework called Indura (davidleonstr/indura), which handles routing, views, layouts, JSON responses and something else.
• Database: MySQL, hosted on some place, storing accounts and cards as BINARY(16) UUIDs because regular auto-increment IDs are for cowards.
• Frontend: Vanilla JS. No React, no build step, no node_modules — just pointerdown/pointermove events and raw willpower to make cards draggable, pinchable, and zoomable.
• Auth: Username + password, stored and compared directly. (See Security, below.)

Features

• Personal walls — every account gets a corkboard at /yourusername.
• Draggable sticky-note cards — double-click (or double-tap) to spawn one, drag to reposition, click the floppy disk to save.
• Pan & zoom — mouse wheel, buttons, or pinch-to-zoom on mobile, like Google Maps but for your grocery list.
• Accounts — sign up, sign in, and your ID gets stashed in localStorage like it's 2012.
• Ownership rules — you can only edit or delete your own cards. Other people's cards are read-only, so no vandalizing your friend's wall (the API might disagree, see below) (You can do it if you have root access on your account.).

Running it locally

composer install     # pulls in Indura, the tiny framework doing the heavy lifting
vendor/bin/indura/ serve   # or just:
php -S localhost:8000 -t public

Then visit http://localhost:8000, make an account, and start pinning your feelings to the internet.

Security (a love letter)

This project was built for fun, and it shows its work:

• Passwords are stored and compared in plain text. If you use your real password here, that's between you and your therapist.
• Database credentials are checked directly into app/constants/database.php. Yes, including the actual host, port, and password. (Maybe not on GitHub).
• Ownership checks on cards happen mostly client-side, and the card API trusts whatever account_id you hand it — so with a little curl-fu, you could probably edit anyone's sticky notes.
• SQL queries are parameterized (good!) but the authentication logic has a few if/else branches that look like they were reasoned about at 3 AM (relatable).

tl;dr: do not deploy this with real user data. Deploy it with fake data, your favorite quotes, or ASCII art of a cat. That's what it's for.

Project structure

app/
  controllers/   # the actual logic (auth, cards, account lookup)
  views/         # thin wrappers that require() the controllers
  layouts/       # HTML shells (main, wall, controller/JSON)
  database/      # PDO connection setup
public/
  index.php      # entrypoint
  src/           # css/js for the login screen and the wall
vendor/
  davidleonstr/indura/   # the homemade framework doing the routing
dev/
  schema.sql     # the two whole tables this app needs

Why "Indura"?

No idea. But it has its own CLI, its own docs site, and a help command, which is more effort than most people put into apps that actually make money. Respect.

That microframework won a local hackathon, by the way. Perhaps because it was the best thing out there, not because it was actually good.

License

Do whatever you want with it. Pin it to your own wall.