ChronoScripts JobberBase Scripts and (PHP) Support

Improve the 1.9 todo-list

JobberBase has improved a lot the last few versions, but it's clear it's still far from being complete. I've focused mostly on user-friendly improvements for the 1.8 release, but for the next release I'd like to work some more on new functionality. Below are a few of the points I'm aiming to get done, but I'd like to hear the users opinion on what should have priority.

Let me know what you think is missing in JobberBase by adding it to a comment and I might add it to my todo-list for the 1.9 release. Let your creativity run loose and let me worry about the technical solution!

Current Todo-list:

• Full SEO optimization - Keywords and description tags for Jobs, small tweaks etc.
• Advanced Search - Many options to filter on using an advanced search form.
• Admin Filtering - Let administrators search for jobs by the same options as the advanced search.
• Replacing translations.ini - Moving this to the admin-panel, as well as optimizing the current JavaScript usage of this

Where are the free scripts? Don’t worry!

As some of you may have noticed, I haven't released many JB-scripts lately. Don't worry, I have not suddenly decided to stop expanding the functionality of JobberBase. In fact, after joining the JobberBase dev-team I've been busier than ever!

Over the past few weeks I've taken the time to finalize some work I still had, and added the new features directly in the upcoming 1.8. I'll write some guides for the new stuff, for those that wish to upgrade manually. Of course you can use the SVN logs as well (found over at Google Code).

Here's an overview of some of the new stuff:

• Change settings directly from the administration panel. These include site name, pagination, search method, url-rewrites etc!
• The search pagination modification from a while back has been included, as well as the SEO URL mod and dynamic URLs.
• The fixed navigation menu's (at the top and footer) have been replaced with dynamic ones, that can be changed from the administration panel.
• Added ReCaptcha support, which can be enabled after obtaining the free keys from ReCaptcha.net
• Support for multiple themes, which can be picked from a dropdown menu in the administration panel.

Expect the 1.8 release soon!

Guide on adding new job-fields

This guide will explain how you can add custom fields to the job creation page. It requires basic PHP and HTML knowledge. I'll write another guide on how to add fields to the apply-page later, which is bit easier to follow than this guide.

For this example I added two new fields, which will hold the amount of hours per week a job will be (in the format of "32 to 40 hours per week"). You can use the examples to add any type of field to the form / db of course.

Introducing..

Inspired by fellow jobberbase-user RedJumpSuit, I've decided to start a blog to post my custom jobberbase-scripts (and others opensource scripts in the future). For those unfamiliar with JobberBase, it is an excelent open-source jobboard script, released by the maker of jobber.ro.

Besides step-for-step guides for customizations, this blog will also offer details on freelance services as well as related news-items. Hopefully this will become a useful resource for other JobberBase users in the future.