Florida Institute of Technology

ECE3553-02 Multifarious Systems 1

Project: jax.integsys.net

James Ranyak

Intro

The main purpose of this project was to learn how to actually make a website that a user can log into.

Constraints

• An actual website with it's own domain name
• Login feature for users
• Looks fairly decent

Tools

This is what was used to build the site locally.

• NetBeans 8.2
• MySql Server
• MySql Workbench

This is what was used to port it off to a webhost

• 1 and 1 Web Hosting
• FileZilla
• Remote SQL database

How the login feature works

When the user accesses the site a session is started

• The session carries across all windows
• Site looks for a session token
• If there is no session token then the user is not loged in

How does the user get a session token?

• First by logging in
• The rest of the site looks for this token granting access if it exists
• When the user logs in, the site runs the login information against a table in a database
• If the user is in the table then they get a token, else they don't

What if the user is not in the database?

• The user must register
• The site validates the user's register info
• If valid, the site takes info and inserts it into a members table
• Then the user can login

Design

Walk through

• Barebones, get the feature to work
• Build around the feature
• Make a standard header and a uniform index page
• Make more pages and make them interesting

Random details

• Colors: #ff0044 (red pink), #e5ff00 (green yellow), cyan and mediumspringgreen for the header, and #4d005a (deep purple) and #25d697 (green moss)
• This page is lots of p, h1,2,4, ul and li elements (could have been automated)
• Registration page is tables and forms
• Play page is lab 7 memory game ontop of this index page minus all the elements
• The index template uses php to modify the sign-in indicator and button
• Button uses two different functions depending on if the user is logged in

Next Steps

This site is obviously not finished and there could be better practices implemented here.

• There is no security
• Who is logged in?
• No statistics

The site could be more exciting.

• More games
• Forums
• News
• More database automation