Building job sites with Joomla!: Establish and be in charge of a job site using easily adaptable Joomla! extensions

236 Pages·2016·8.78 MB·English

by  Santonu Kumar Dhar

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Building job sites with Joomla!
Establish and be in charge of a job site using easily
adaptable Joomla! extensions.
Santonu Kumar Dhar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Building job sites with Joomla!
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Credits
Author Editorial Team Leader
Santonu Kumar Dhar Akshara Aware
Reviewer Project Team Leader
Nakul Ganesh S Priya Mukherji
Acquisition Editor Project Coordinator
Dilip Venkatesh Vincila Colaco
Development Editor Proofreader
Meeta Rajani Cecere Mario
Technical Editors Graphics
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Production Coordinator
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Copy Editor
Lakshmi Menon
Cover Work
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Indexer
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About the Author
Santonu Kumar Dhar was born on 16 June 1987, in Comilla, Bangladesh.
He developed an interest for websites in 1995 when he saw a television program
on website technology. He got an opportunity to explore the computer world ten
years later in 2005. He started web designing in 2006 and he has operated several
websites since 2007. Now his web development skills include PHP/MYSQL,
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, WML, Joomla!, and other CMS such as Drupal and
Wordpress. Besides this he also has a good fundamental knowledge of
programming with Java, C/C++, and VB.Net. He is interested more in
the development of web applications than desktop applications.
He is also co-founder Chairman and Editor In Chief of the fashion magazine
"HAULE HAULE" (ISSN: 2078-8797), Haule Haule Magazine, Entertainment, and
Media Relations, Inc. 848 N. Rainbow Blvd. Suite #1711, Las Vegas, NV 89107, USA,
http://www.haulehaule.com.
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Acknowledgement
My love and thanks to my parents, relatives and friends. "Thank you! For
supporting me".
I would specially like to thank my uncle Hari Narayan Das, Kallol Majumder, my
cousins Dr. Rajib Das Dip, Mithila Das, Sourav Das, and my brother-in-law Amit
Kumar Raut for inspiring me a lot.
Thanks to Rajesh Bhowmik; he is not only my relative but also a good friend and
supported me all the time.
I would like to thank the Packt team, especially Priya Mukherji, Dilip Venkatesh,
and Vincila Colaco for their guidance and co-operation.
Special thanks to Ulas Ulkane and his team at InstantPHP, for providing necessary
information and technical support.
I also appreciate the readers of this book and I hope it will be helpful to them.
Finally, thanks to all the reviewers of this book for their comments, suggestions,
and recommendations.
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About the Reviewer
Nakul Ganesh is a 22 year old programmer from Mysore, India. He has a
Bachelor's Degree in Information Science Engineering from The Visvesvaraya
Technological University (India). He is an avid open source contributor and has
twice been a Student Contract worker for Joomla! under the Google Summer of
Code Program. Nakul is an ardent fan of PHP and Python and is currently working
on a Multi-Touch Python library. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs!
Pro 1.3.2 7
Introduction 8
Prerequisites for installation of Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs! 8
Setting up a local server environment 9
Uploading installation packages and files to server 12
Creating database and user 12
Installing and configuring Joomla! 1.5 14
Managing sections, categories, and articles 20
Managing extensions 22
Installing and configuring Jobs! 23
Adding modules 27
Summary 27
Chapter 2: Control Panel Interface 29
Introducing Joomla! administrator panel 29
Menus 31
Submenus 31
Tools 41
Lists 42
Dialogs 42
Introducing Jobs! control panel interface 43
Buttons 44
Tabs 51
Tools 52
Summary 52
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Chapter 3: Designing a Jobsite Template 53
Introduction 53
The basic structure and layout of a template 54
Background and color schemes 54
Template reference 55
Jdoc include tags 55
The head include tag 55
The component include tag 55
Module position include tag 55
Coding 56
Template parameters 62
Installing your template 64
Testing 65
Validating W3C 66
XHTML validation 66
CSS validation 68
Summary 68
Chapter 4: Changing Configuration Settings 69
Introduction 69
Joomla! 1.5 Global Configuration 70
Introducing the Site tab 70
Site Settings 70
Metadata Settings 71
SEO Settings 72
Introducing the System tab 72
System Settings 73
Users Settings 73
Media Settings 74
Debug Settings 76
Cache Settings 76
Session Settings 76
Server Settings 77
Local Settings 78
FTP Settings 78
Database Settings 79
Mail settings 80
Changing Jobs! Pro 1.3.2 Configurations 81
General Settings 81
Email 82
Job posting 83
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Image 84
Templates 85
Home page 86
Social Bookmarking 88
Thank you message 89
Job Apply Page 90
Credit System 91
RSS Feeds 92
User Files System 93
Job Seeker Panel 94
Employer Panel 96
Summary 97
Chapter 5: Managing Jobs, Job Types, and Categories 99
Introduction 99
Managing job types 100
Viewing List Job Types 100
Adding a new job type 101
Editing a job type 102
Publishing or unpublishing a job type 102
Deleting a job type 102
Managing job categories 102
Viewing job categories 103
Adding a new category 103
Editing a category 104
Publishing or unpublishing a category 105
Deleting a category 105
Managing jobs 106
Viewing list jobs 106
Adding a new job 106
Editing jobs 110
Publishing or unpublishing jobs 110
Deleting jobs 110
Summary 111
Chapter 6: Managing Countries and Companies 113
Introduction 113
Managing countries 113
Viewing List Countries 114
Adding new country 115
Editing country 115
Publishing or unpublishing countries 116
Deleting countries 116
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