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6o6o / sci-journal-mgr

A management system for scientific journals and periodicals
MIT License
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Need to update the publish date #3

Open amexis opened 7 years ago

amexis commented 7 years ago

Hi there! Thanks for this application. I would like to know where and how to modify the publish date for the journal. For example we addd the journal for the 2016 but it displays the current year 2017. I can't locate it in the database. Thanks

6o6o commented 7 years ago

Hello. The year is calculated as _startingyear + volume. It is not stored in the database at all. To modify it, edit the J_YEAR parameter in index.php so that the resulting value would be correct:

const J_YEAR = 2000;

If you need a more specific date, like when a particular issue was first published, you might need to add an extra column to the table and pull data from it later.

amexis commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your prompt response. Got it. One more question, we have more than one issue in the certain year, but there is no option to add new issue to the specific volume. I'm sorry for the questions, I do not have strong tech skills :) Thanks

6o6o commented 7 years ago

Every issue belongs to some volume. Upon adding new article you fill in the upper row of values: vol, issue, page, end_page. A volume can have any number of issues, so just enter existing volume for new issue and it should appear in the same group.

Year completely depends on volume. This may be a bit of a problem if you have several volumes per year. I wanted to keep things as basic as possible and didn't really consider this scenario. It is possible to achieve correct behavior with minor edits to archive.php. Say, your journal was first published in year 2000, you have 2 volumes per year and currently on vol 35. Then you should calculate it like J_YEAR + floor($vol/2)