Budget Planner

The Budget Planner is a Python-based application designed to help you manage your budget by adding, viewing, updating, deleting budget items, and generating a PDF report. It stores budget data in a JSON file and uses the ReportLab library to generate the PDF report.

Features

• Add Budget Item: Add a new budget item with name, category, amount, and date.
• View Budget: Display all budget items.
• Delete Budget Item: Remove a budget item by its index.
• Update Budget Item: Update the details of an existing budget item.
• Generate PDF Report: Create a PDF report of the budget items.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/MuhammadUmer78/Budget-Planner.git

2. Change to the project directory:

cd Budget-Planner

3. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To run the Budget Planner application, use the following command:

python budget_planner.py

Menu Options

1. Add Budget Item: Add a new item to the budget.
2. View Budget: Display the current list of budget items.
3. Delete Budget Item: Remove an item from the budget by its index.
4. Update Budget Item: Update the details of an existing budget item by its index.
5. Generate PDF Report: Create a PDF report of the current budget items.
6. Exit: Exit the application.

Example

Adding a Budget Item

Choose an option: 1
Enter the name of the item: Groceries
Enter the category: Food
Enter the amount: 100.50

Viewing the Budget

Choose an option: 2
1. Groceries - Food - 100.5 - 2024-07-10

Deleting a Budget Item

Choose an option: 3
Enter the index of the item to delete: 1

Updating a Budget Item

Choose an option: 4
Enter the index of the item to update: 1
Enter the new name (or leave blank to keep current): 
Enter the new category (or leave blank to keep current): 
Enter the new amount (or leave blank to keep current): 150.75
Enter the new date (or leave blank to keep current): 

Generating a PDF Report

Choose an option: 5

Dependencies

• json: For handling JSON data.
• datetime: For managing date and time.
• reportlab: For generating PDF reports.

Install ReportLab with:

pip install reportlab

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the License file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please create a pull request or submit an issue for any bugs or feature requests.