open page_page.php on the root folder and add this before the first line:

$smarty->assign('the_captcha', recaptcha_get_html(CAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY));
$smarty->assign('ENABLE_RECAPTCHA', ENABLE_RECAPTCHA);

on the same file, before these lines:

if ($contact_name == '')
{
	$errors['contact_name'] = $translations['contact']['name_error'];
}

add this:

// validation
if (ENABLE_RECAPTCHA)
{
	$resp = recaptcha_check_answer(CAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY,
	$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], 
	$_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
	$_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);
 
	if (!$resp->is_valid) 
	{
		$errors['captcha'] = $translations['captcha']['captcha_error'];
	}
}

that should take care of generating the reCaptcha field. and then next, open /_includes/default/page.tpl and before the submit field

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="{$translations.contact.submit}" />

add this block:

{if $ENABLE_RECAPTCHA}
<label>Anti-Spam:</label><br />
	{literal}
	<script type="text/javascript">
	  var RecaptchaOptions = {
		theme : 'white',
		tabindex : 9
	  };
	</script>
	{/literal}
	{$the_captcha} <span class="validation-error">{if $smarty.session.apply_errors.captcha}
	<img src="{$BASE_URL}_templates/{$THEME}/img/icon-delete.png" alt="" /> {$errors.captcha}{/if}</span>
	<br /><br />
{/if}

features include the following:

• job poster does not need to register for an account
• no need to login
• no forgetting passwords
• can manage (edit or delete) older posted jobs without accessing the job’s email
• job poster only needs the most recent email received when his/her job was posted
• will not affect any of your customizations
• supports pagination as well

this hack is a sort of workaround so that people would no longer need to keep their old publish job confirmation just so they can edit or deactivate their jobs, the most recent publish email would be enough to access all the job poster’s previous job ads (where the job poster used the same email address to post.)

if you are interested in this hack, simply make a PayPal donation (US$10 and up preferably) to this post (if you have benefited from any of my previous work) and you will receive the full source code and installation instructions.

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Installing jobberBase on a sub-directory called ‘/jobs’
this has been a very common issue on people installing jobberBase on a sub-directory called ‘/jobs’, this is an issue because jobberBase uses the ‘/jobs’ URL (not directory) when publishing jobs and this gets in conflict when the folder also has the same name of ‘jobs’. to resolve the issue you can try the following:

on your site’s /jobs/.htaccess file, update the content to this:

# AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
 
RewriteBase /jobs
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 
ErrorDocument 404 /page-unavailable/
 
<files ~ "\.tpl$">
order deny,allow
allow from none
deny from all
</files>

and on your site’s /jobs/admin/.htaccess file, update the content to this:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
 
RewriteBase /jobs/admin
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 
ErrorDocument 404 /page-unavailable/

personally, i DO NOT recommend installing jobberBase on a ‘/jobs’ sub-directory as the URL the jobs will be on will be pretty redundant, like:

http://www.somewebsite.com/jobs/job/1/web-developer-needed-at-foo-inc/

instead if you really want to use the ‘jobs’ word, i’d recommend installing jobberBase on a sub-domain instead, like:

http://jobs.somewebsite.com/job/1/web-developer-needed-at-foo-inc/

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Download and unzip the files and read the installation notes. Enjoy!

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// delete temporary posts older than 2 days
$janitor->DeleteTemporaryJobs();

To automatically delete older jobs using cron, just create another function in the class.Maintenance.php file with this:

// delete active posts older than 40 days
public function DeleteActiveJobs()
{
    global $db;
    $sql = 'DELETE FROM jobs WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), created_on) > 40 AND is_temp = 0 AND is_active = 1';
    $db->Execute($sql);
}

and add this function on the cron_maintenance.php file

// delete active posts older than 40 days
$janitor->DeleteActiveJobs();

Check out my related post to automatically expire jobs with notification here.

{$smarty.now|date_format:"%A, %B %e, %Y"}

and it will show:

Sunday, November 29, 2009

you can place it on header.tpl or footer.tpl or sidebar.tpl whichever you prefer.

open up page_job.php, after this line

$smarty->assign('job', $info);

add this block:

if (substr($info['url'],0,7) == "http://" AND strpos($info['url'], "."))
{
	$smarty->assign('job_url', $info['url']);
}
elseif (substr($info['url'],0,7) != "http://" AND strpos($info['url'], "."))
{
	$smarty->assign('job_url', 'http://'. $info['url']);
}

then open the file job-details.tpl from your templates folder and use this line to display the job poster’s URL.

{if $job_url != ''}<a href="{$job_url}" target="_blank">{$job.company}</a>{else}{$job.company}{/if}

if you’ve tried this and encountered error, let me know. i would be interested to find out!

the solution is in the config.php file. i would recommend creating another instance of the config.php (i renamed mine to config2.php) and look for the lines below.

replace this

die('[config.php] Cannot determine APP_MAIN_DIR, please set manual and comment this line');

with this:

//die('[config.php] Cannot determine APP_MAIN_DIR, please set manual and comment this line');
$app_main_dir = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']),'/\\');	
define('_APP_MAIN_DIR', $app_main_dir);

then replace this:

die('[config.php] Cannot determine BASE_URL, please set manual and comment this line');

with this:

//die('[config.php] Cannot determine BASE_URL, please set manual and comment this line');
define ('BASE_URL', 'http://yourwebsitename.com/');

now how’s that for a workaround?

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and I wanted to add a simple job board in the site for those who are looking for developers and designers specializing on job board customizations. Of course the first thing I thought of was to use jobberBase (why wouldn’t I, right?) but then again that will mean managing multiple admins since it will be a separate installation and customizing the templates, etc. So even if I have never tried customizing a WordPress, I ventured into researching how I could implement a very simple job board for my site. The first things I tried to resolve are the following:

1) Allow people to submit a job advertisement without registering for an account
2) Create a PayPal payment link so that job posters can pay for their ads
3) Moderate the submitted job ads and approve the job post when payment is received from PayPal (no IPN integration or anything, just manual approval)
4) Display the content separately from all the website content (meaning the job post should not appear on any of the posts or categories)

After spending several hours researching on the web, I was able to figure out the 4 things I wanted to do for the simple job board that I wanted (for the most part of this customization I used TDO Mini Forms, Advanced Category Excluder and hacking some of the PHP files in the theme that I was using.) There were a few other things I want to do after this, but so far I was pretty pleased with how the job board turned out.

Here’s how the Post a Job page looks like: