DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED TRANSCRIPT GENERATING SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, UNIVERISTY OF CALABAR

CHAPTER ONE 
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0   INTRODUCTION
A system is a collection of inter-related and inter-connected components that work together to perform or carryout a specific task in order to accomplish a particular goal. For every system, security is a paramount issue. Due to multiple security incidents around the world and the loss of sensitive data, it has become necessary to put in place a mechanism to prevent unauthorized access into the server housing a sensitive system such as the Student Result Processing System through scripts run on the website. This project is therefore concerned with designing and implementing a Php/MySQL to serve as the security mechanism between the front-end and back-end of the already existing Student Result Processing System. The Student Result Processing System automatically handle students' activities in the Department ranging from student  registration, keeping of students' files for decision making, computation and generation of students' grade points and transcripts respectively.
1.1     STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The problems identified to be solved by this project include the following:
·  The safety of students records located on the server.
·  The location of administrator passwords in the script file easily accessible via the website.
·  Easy access and 4available of student transcript on demand.
1.2     PURPOSE OF STUDY
The major purpose of this study is to design and implement a secure database system to record and manage student information and their result from year one to final year. 
1.3     SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This project work will be of immense help in securing student details and results stored on the Student Result Processing System in the Departments of  Computer Science and prevent malicious attacks and ease the delay experienced in the manual examination result processing system. Below are the advantages of this project: