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Performance and User Experience Improvements to the ASU/NASA Space Grant Website

Performance and User Experience Improvements to the ASU/NASA Space Grant Website. Sean.Malley@asu.edu. Presentation Structure. Input Validation Database Improvements Toward Drupal. Input Validation. Preventing XSS and SQL Injection. General Process. Benefits.

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Performance and User Experience Improvements to the ASU/NASA Space Grant Website

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  1. Performance and User Experience Improvements to the ASU/NASA Space Grant Website Sean.Malley@asu.edu

  2. Presentation Structure • Input Validation • Database Improvements • Toward Drupal

  3. Input Validation Preventing XSS and SQL Injection

  4. General Process

  5. Benefits • Reduces Potential of Successful Attack • “Exploits of a Mom” XKCD.com • Helps user properly complete forms • Saves time correcting user error

  6. Implementation • Research acceptable data for each field • Official Specifications • Previous Data • Educated Guesses

  7. Implementation • Create filtering function library • MySQL escaping functions • Regular expression functions • Basic type testing functions • Test • Sample applications

  8. Database Improvements

  9. Database Modifications • Cleaning out previous bad entries and depreciated tables • Creating a new database structure to simply data storage and extraction • Working on structures to better incorporate past data and data sharing between Space Grant Programs

  10. Toward Drupal

  11. The Current Framework is Complex • Over 710 PHP Files • 826 Images • 465 Folders • 2 Databases • 53 Tables

  12. Benefits of Drupal • One display system makes standards compliance simpler • Time tried CMS means less errors and the benefit of many skilled developers • Skinning the website is simpler • Modular setup makes adding features much easier

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