In the first phase of the development of the MARS system that served the research purposes, the database was developed with mySQL. For the MySQL database management, phpMyAdmin was used. It is a freeware that serves such functions as creating and deleting a database, adding a table, revising and deleting, adding a domain running SQL inquiries, and managing the users, authorities and the domain key. After the database of the MARS system was developed, the
content management system called management panel which provided an interface to allow a database expert to upload the content to the database by using the PHP program language was developed. The MARS system is made up of five modules such as “what is research”, “quantitative method”, “qualitative method”, “mixed method” and “effective reporting”. Any information to be included in or excluded from these modules is uploaded to the database via the management panel developed. In addition, multimedia elements such as experts’ videos, audio materials and
slides are uploaded to the database again with the help of this platform management.