Hired – PHP Jobs Portal (Free Open Source)

Hired is a free and open-source PHP Jobs Portal. This is not a “we have all sorts of features that you will never use” kind of project.  This is a simple portal with the basic features, so you can customize and build on top of it quickly.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Download & Notes	How To Use	Quick Reference
How To Develop	Common Problems

 

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

• Apache Mod Rewrite
• PHP MYSQL PDO Extension
• Best to have at least PHP 8.0
• “Grade A” browser

Hired has not been extensively tested, but it is developed and works on a WAMP8 (Windows Apache MySQL PHP 8) server.

 

INSTALLATION

Just access index.php in your browser and walk through the installer.

 

LICENSE & DOWNLOAD

Hired is released under the MIT License. You are free to use it for your own personal and commercial projects, modify it as you see fit. On the condition that there the software is provided “as-is”. There are no warranties provided and “no strings attached”. Code Boxx and the authors are not liable for any claims, damages, or liabilities.

Download Hired | GitHub | SourceForge

 

 

 

STEP 1) REGISTER COMPANIES

Self-explanatory step 1, register all the companies.

 

STEP 2) REGISTER JOBS

Next, register the jobs under the “Jobs” section. The end… Yep, it’s that simple for the time being. Until I have more time and motivation to add more features to it.

 

 

 

FOLDER STRUCTURE

• api/ The API endpoint.
• assets/ Public images, Javascript, CSS, etc…
• lib/ Core engine and library files.
• pages/ HTML pages.

Yes, there are only 4 folders in the entire system.

 

DATABASE TABLES

Field	Description
company_id	The company ID, primary key, auto-increment.
company_slug	URL slug, unique.
company_name	Name of the company.
company_desc	Company description.

Field	Description
job_id	Job ID, primary key and auto-increment.
company_id	Company ID, foreign key.
job_title	Title of the job.
job_desc	A short description of the job.
job_status	For now – 1 for active, 0 for “deleted” or “not available”.

Field	Description
user_id	User ID. Primary and foreign key, the user who made the request.
reset_hash	Security hash.
reset_time	Time when the request is made.

Field	Description
user_id	User ID, primary key and auto-increment.
user_name	The user’s name.
user_email	User’s email, unique to prevent duplicate registrations.
user_role	The user’s role. “A”dmin or “U”ser.
user_password	User’s password.

Field	Description
option_name	Primary key.
option_description	Setting description.
option_value	Setting value.
option_group	Setting group number.

 

 

THE FRAMEWORKS

I Was Here is built with Bootstrap and Core Boxx. Believe it or not, the initial version is built within 48 man-hours using:

• Core Boxx Users Module
• Modified Core Boxx Pretty URL Module

Go ahead and check those out if you want… The other “pre-developed” modules of Core Boxx should also snap right in.

 

 

STEP 1) CREATE/MODIFY DATABASE TABLES

Add your new tables or views, modify the existing ones.

 

STEP 2) ADD/UPDATE SYSTEM MODULE

class Report extends Core {
  function getJobs ($id) {
    return $this->DB->fetchAll(
      "SELECT * FROM `jobs` WHERE `company_id`=? ORDER BY `job_id` DESC",
      [$id]
    );
  }
}

To add a new module, create lib/LIB-Module.php. Define class Module extends Core, and add functions inside. In this example, we add a new report module – lib/LIB-Report.php and class Report extends Core. That’s all. This new module can now be loaded via $_CORE->load("Report") and the function can be accessed via $_CORE->Report->getJobs().

 

STEP 3) ADD/UPDATE API ENDPOINT (OPTIONAL)

// (A) ADMIN ONLY
if (!isset($_SESS["user"]) || $_SESS["user"]["user_role"]!="A") {
  $_CORE->respond(0, "Please sign in first", null, null, 403);
}

switch ($_REQ) {
  // (B) INVALID REQUEST
  default:
    $_CORE->respond(0, "Invalid request", null, null, 400);
    break;
 
  // (B) GET JOBS
  case "getJobs":
    $_CORE->autoGETAPI("Reports", "getJobs");
    break;
}}

Create api/API-Module.php. For this example, send $_POST["id"]=123 to http://site.com/Report/getJobs/ to get the jobs report – The API will reply with a JSON encoded string.

 

 

STEP 4) ADD/UPDATE HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT

• Add your new pages in pages/.
  • For admin pages, add pages/ADM-name.php.
  • For user pages, add pages/PAGE-name.php.
  • For example, pages/ADM-report.php can only be accessed by administrators from http://site.com/admin/report.

That’s about it. Just reverse engineer and copy from the existing libraries, API, and pages… You will see the development pattern here.

 

 

I FORGOT THE PASSWORD OR DELETED ALL ADMIN ACCOUNTS

require "lib/CORE-go.php";
$_CORE->load("Users");
$_CORE->Users->save("NAME", "EMAIL", "A", "PASSWORD", OPTIONAL-USER-ID);

Just create an “account recovery” script to create a new account (or update an existing one). Run and delete this afterward.

 

MIGRATED TO A NEW DOMAIN

• Simply update HOST_BASE in lib/CORE-config.php.
• Run $_CORE->Route->init() to regenerate the .htaccess and api/.htaccess files.
• Clear the browser cache to prevent irritating cache redirects.

 

UPGRADING

Just override all the files and access index.php. The installer will take care of database updates (if any).

 

MANUAL INSTALLATION

• Create a database and import lib/SQL-hired.sql.
• Open lib/CORE-config.php, update the settings to your own.
  • The host settings.
  • Database settings.
  • If you want to develop mobile apps, consider enabling CORS.
  • Generate your own JWT secret key, set the issuer to your domain or company name.
  • Set the email “sent from”.
• Run $_CORE->Route->init() to create .htaccess and api/.htaccess.
• Create your own admin user. See “forgot password” above.
• Rename lib/INSTALL-index.foo to index.php.

 

NOT WORKING. DON’T KNOW WHY.

Open the developer’s console, reload the page and see the error message.

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