HiKa

HiKa is my personal website: a portfolio and a small content management system in one. It is where I write down what I am learning and show the work that comes out of it.

What it does

• A public side with home, about, skills, projects and contact pages.
• Every word of the site comes from the database, so I edit content instead of templates.
• A private admin panel for the profile, skills, projects, socials, the hero terminal, the timeline and the inbox.

How it is built

• Plain PHP 8 with no framework, no Composer and no build step.
• MySQLi prepared statements for every query, and output escaped where it is printed.
• Bootstrap 5 and Font Awesome vendored in the repo instead of pulled from a CDN.
• Apache rewrites, so /about is about.php and /projects/hika is project.php?slug=hika.

What I learned

• Keeping markup, styles and behaviour out of each other\x27s way.
• Escaping output, checking CSRF tokens and guarding the admin panel.
• Deploying to AWS EC2 behind Apache over HTTPS, with a database that only listens locally.