I think I’ve come up with an idea for a project to do after I’m finished teaching myself PHP and MySQL. I want my own damn wishlist software. I’ve been copying my lists into MetaWishlist but it’s not quite what I want. I have tried a gazillion others – seriously, I’ve tried Felicite, Baggle, The Things I Want, Wishlist.com, JustWish, grat.uito.us (thanks Nina), Froogle (thanks clubjuggler)…yeah, you get the idea. But none of them are quite perfect! So I’ve been looking around HotScripts and Sourceforge (haven’t really found anything at the former) and I’m finding a few examples, but none of them do quite what I want. So I’m just going to have to write something myself, even though I can’t code my way out of a paper bag (raise your hand if you get that joke). Here are my desired features:

• Pictures – input a URL to an image and it either snags it (to the site or to something like Photobucket) or just steals the bandwidth. They should be resized so it’s uniform.
• Tagging – MetaWishlist has this, but it’s clunky. I would love to have tag groups (like del.icio.us) and comma separated tagging (because I don’t like space separated).
• Fields – Item title, optional description, size (if applicable), color (if applicable), price, tags, store name, item URL
• Claiming – So people don’t buy two of the same thing. This is low priority for me.
• Import/Export – Because I should be able to if I want to. Import from…dunno. Export to…XML? Excel?
• Self-Hosting – For one thing, it’s fun. I like to run my own stuff. Also, it makes me feel my data is safer, although something remotely hosted that could export would be fine.
• Pop-up Entry – Enter the item info using either a pop-up box or a frame.

More to come as I think of it, because I know there’s more I can think of.