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

2. Presentation Structure
Input Validation
Database Improvements
Toward Drupal

3. Input Validation
Preventing XSS and SQL Injection

4. General Process Take User Input Check for Completion
POSTs from forms, GET from navigation
Check for Completion
Strip Improper Characters
Check Proper formation
(Phone Numbers, IDs and so on)
Store in Database or Return to User

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
Names like O’malley or with accents
Project names Semicolons etc

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

10. Database Improvements

11. 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

12. Toward Drupal

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

14. 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