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PHP / Open Journal Systems

OJS / Academic Publishing Solutions

Customization, troubleshooting and technical maintenance of Open Journal Systems and academic publishing infrastructure.

  • PHP
  • OJS / PKP
  • MySQL
  • Server Administration

Overview

Technical work on Open Journal Systems installations used for academic publishing, covering customization, plugins and production support.

Problem

Academic publishing platforms are long-lived PHP systems where upgrades, plugins and server configuration frequently break editorial workflows.

Approach

Hands-on debugging and configuration: reading the PHP codebase, isolating plugin conflicts, correcting server and database configuration and restoring publishing workflows.

Key features

  • OJS theme and workflow customization
  • Plugin installation, configuration and conflict resolution
  • DOI functionality and metadata handling
  • PHP debugging across the OJS/PKP codebase
  • Server and MySQL configuration
  • Production troubleshooting on live journals

Architecture

  1. 01PHP / OJS (PKP) application
  2. 02MySQL database
  3. 03Linux server configuration and mail delivery

Challenges

Diagnosing failures on live journals where downtime affects editors, reviewers and authors simultaneously.

Solution

Reproduce on a staging copy, isolate the failing plugin or configuration, patch narrowly, then apply to production with a rollback path.

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