Simply My Care

Simply My Care needed a website that did more than describe services, it needed to actually run the day-to-day operations of a home care and supported living provider: staff scheduling, client care plans, and secure communication between carers, clients, and admin. The previous WordPress site couldn't support any of that without a maze of plugins, so it was rebuilt from scratch in native PHP.

The platform is deliberately framework-free, a good fit for a small, focused application where a full framework's overhead wasn't worth it. Every database query runs through a single Database:: PDO wrapper, authentication and role checks live in one Auth:: class, and every POST form is CSRF-protected. Staff and clients each get a role-scoped portal: staff see their weekly rota, assigned clients, and log completed visits; clients see their upcoming visits, care plan, and care team, with internal messaging connecting everyone without exposing anyone else's records.

Email, enquiries, password resets, notifications, runs through PHPMailer over SMTP rather than PHP's unreliable built-in mail() function. The site deploys to IONOS shared hosting via FTP, with a gitignored config.local.php keeping real database credentials out of version control.