PARENT PORTAL

The Parent Portal (parents.psc.ac.uk) was developed to allow parents access to more information about their son or daughter's progress at the college. After logging in to the site, data is read from our Intranet sites and presented to the user.

For the site, I had to develop an account management system which allows the parent to create an account securely over SSL. I use various methods to reduce the risk from hacking, including CAPTCHAs, account verification e-mails, IP locking on repeated failures and a failure log. I've also created an administration area to allow college staff to change account details and statuses.

The site is built with a mixture of PHP and MySQL, with a little bit of JavaScript thrown in. The site doesn't require the user to have JavaScript turned on and it does degrade gracefully. It is standards compliant and is tested against all modern browsers and IE 6.