Case study: the Exopolitics Journal

The Exopolitics Journal is an online journal, dedicated to exopolitics. It offers high-quality articles that are of interest to those attracted to accurate research on Exopolitics.

The web site uses a search engine, written in PHP that interacts with a MySQL database via AJAX calls. AJAX calls make it possible to update the content of a page without having to reload the page. This makes searching for information, e.g., a faster and easier experience.

As shown in the screen shot below, the user can first select ('step 1') a criterion to find articles. Based upon the selected criterion a relevant listbox appears ('step 2'). Alternatively, in the case a search on key words has to be performed, an entry field appears. Based upon the criterion selected in 'step 2.' a list of results is shown.

Obviously the web site also uses a secure content management system to add, retrieve, modify, or delete information to and from the database. This custom made content management system allows to manage authors, articles, content categories, etc.