What I wanted was to be able to get a notification when an applicant applies to a job. As an admin you must know what is going on with the site.  Any site for that matter, but especialy with job boards. It is critical so you can know how to modify SEO campaigns and a whole host of other things. Here is the specs I want when the job is done:

1) Email should have the job seekers info on it.
2) Email should have the employer info on it.
3) Email should have the job info on it.

To get started we first need to identify where in the source code we need to add the functionality. The first file we will need is /system/user-scripts/classifieds/apply_now.php. Inside that file search for "Notifications::sendApplyNow", it should be around line 92.. It will look like this before we start modifications:
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if ( !Notifications::sendApplyNow($post,"files/files/".$file_name,$listing_info, $current_user_sid, $notRegisterUserData) )
      $errors['SEND_ERROR'] = true;;;

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PS: programmers out there, you should always bracket your if statements… It bugs the hell out me when ppl dont bracket there if statements!!!

Replace the lines above with the code below:

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   if ( !Notifications::sendApplyNow($post,"files/files/".$file_name,$listing_info, $current_user_sid, $notRegisterUserData) )
     {
       $errors['SEND_ERROR'] = true;
     }
     else
     {
       //send admin notification with info about who applied and to what job for what company
       //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            AdminNotifications::sendAdminApplyNow($post,"files/files/".$file_name,$listing_info, $current_user_sid, $notRegisterUserData);
     }

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Next open /system/lib/miscelanious/AdminNotifications.php and add this line at the top of the page:
 require_once("users/User/UserManager.php");  

Then add this function in the class with the other functions. I added it at the bottom of the file… (inside the brackets like the rest of the functions)

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  function sendAdminApplyNow($info, $file = '', $data_resume = array(), $current_user_sid = false, $notRegisterUserData = false, $companyData = array()) {
    //get the job seekers email address
    if($current_user_sid) {
      $user_info = UserManager::getUserInfoBySID($current_user_sid);
      $sender_email_address = $user_info['email'];
    } else {
      $sender_email_address = $notRegisterUserData['email'];
    }
    //get the admin email address
    $admin_email = Settings::getSettingByName('notification_email');

    //get the company info
    $info['listing']['empEmail'] = $info['listing']['user']['email'];
    $info['listing']['empName'] = $info['listing']['user']['CompanyName'];

    //get the template for the email
    $email = new Email( $admin_email, '../email_templates/admin_apply_now.tpl',
    array('listing' => $info['listing'], 'seller_request'=>$info['submitted_data'], 'data_resume' => $data_resume) );
    $email->setReplyTo($admin_email);
    if ($file != '')
    $email->setFile($file);

    //send it out
    return $email->send();
  }

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Finaly the last step besides testing…

We need to create a template for the email to be sent with so we need to add a new template for it. Create a file in /templates/_system/email_templates/ named admin_apply_now.tpl.
All together the file and path should be like this:

/templates/_system/email_templates/admin_apply_now.tpl

Open your new empty file and paste the following code into it:

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{subject}New Applicant for {$listing.empName}{/subject}

{message}
 An application to job posting '{$listing.Title}' was just submitted:<br />
  <hr>
 Employer Information<br />
 Employer Name: {$listing.empName}<br />
 Employer Email: {$listing.empEmail}<br />
 Employer Link:<br />
 <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/search_results_jobs/?action=search&username[equal]={$listing.empEmail}">http://www.yourdomain.com/search_results_jobs/?action=search&username[equal]={$listing.empEmail}</a>

 <hr>
 Job Information<br />
 Job ID: {$listing.id}<br />
 Job Link:<br />
 <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/display_job/{$listing.id}/">http://www.yourdomain.com/display_job/{$listing.id}/</a>

  <hr>
 Job Seeker Information<br />
 Name: {$seller_request.name}<br />
 Username: {$seller_request.username}<br />
 Email: {$seller_request.email}<br />
 Cover Letter (optional): {$seller_request.comments}<br/>
 User resume: <a href="{$GLOBALS.site_url}/display_resume/{$data_resume.sid}">{$data_resume.Title}</a><br/>
 <br />
{/message}

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In the code above you must replace yourdomain.com with whatever your domain is.  Save your file now.

AND….. ….. …. WA BAM! Your done. There you have it a customized admin notification for when applicants apply for a job.

Let me know if this helps anybody out there! I would love to hear from you.

Joe Mas

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What is your skill set and who are you helping?

As we all know having a great site is absolutely worthless if people dont ever see it. It is like having a bad ass race car in the garage with no gas in it. What good is that? NONE! So phase two was to market his simple clean little site. But in this case we are going to market the site localy. He is a handyman so first thing I did was throw $20 worth of google adwords at it. I streamlined the ads to only show around his area he lives in, Sarasota, Venice, Nokomis, Englewood, Port Charlotte ….

Here is the method of madness I used on his adwords on some of his key words, all at  $0.05 per click with a $2 a day limit:

sarasota handyman
venice handyman
nokomis handyman
…

then we threw in a few keywords for the skill of the trade:

venice home renovations
venice home repairs
venice remodeling contractors
…

By the time I was done I had 153 key words that all matched up to the content on his site and promoted his skill set in his demographics.

Now since money is a big issue because most people around here don't have it, we have to put on hold some of the things we would typicaly do to truly promote a company. However, I garantee this will bring him enough work to make a solid living. I can garantee it because I see it every day and I have not one unhappy client.

If money was no issue I would employ a service I can trust to submit a minimum of 100 press releases, 100 articals, and give him a few hundred social bookmarks. Now a days the market is saturated with companies that will perform this for just over a hundred dollars or so.  It sure beats submitting them yourself which can take days upon days to do.

The site has a nice code frame work that is easily scalable. Want a blog installed?… No prob. Oh, you need a cataloging system?… No prob! 

So there you have it in a nut shell.  I don't want to minimize the work that went into it, and every site. There is a ton of other things that have been done also. Such as setting up google analytics, submitting to google and yahoo and ask …. and all the rest. I also built him a back end so he can update his own content. I set up a cpanel, his email server, database for page content, contact form that was customized in how it sends the information to him, not to mention I put in all the content myself. I don't typicaly do that. So he got a full blown SEO optimized site with content and hosting and site promotion for less than you spend on gas for a week. 

I sometimes wonder "what the hell am i helping all these people for?" but it is what I felt led to do. So, I do it. I am called to help people help them selves  :) I trust that God will keep me afloat if I just do His will.

Joe Mas

Check out the site and let me know what you think: http://www.ExpertLocalHandyman.com. Just keep in mind its not the site we are looking at its the business it generates for the guy. So 3-10 extra phone calls from people inquiring about his handyman work will achieve the goal we were after.

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After we had established the company it seemed some of the other co-owners had lost vision of the true purpose of the company. They have a great business model if you like everything automated and no service. I firmly believe in personal service to clients on a solid foundation of experience. As a result of these differences I have some great news for NCO Group, CIBC, and all of the debt and collections companies out there!

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Check out our site today!

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With just a little more than $400 dollars invested in marketing the site has seen an increase in revenue/profit of more than $15,000/month. We have adwords and a couple other banner ads running for it now. In less than 3 months traffic has increased from less than 100 unique visitors a day to around 200 – 500 currently.

Targeted Visitors=Revenue

So here was my quick fix for it…

First find these three files:

1) /system/lib/miscellaneous/AdminNotifications.php

2) /templates/_system/email_templates/admin_user_registration_email.tpl

3) /system/user-scripts/users/registration.php

 Now open the file you found earlier, /system/lib/miscellaneous/AdminNotifications.php

Look for the function named "sendAdminUserRegistrationLetter" and replace it with the code below:

 function sendAdminUserRegistrationLetter($user_id,$otherInfo="") {

  $admin_email = Settings::getSettingByName('notification_email');
  $system_tpl = System::getSystemSettings('SYSTEM_TEMPLATE_DIR');

  $userInfo = UserManager::getUserInfoBySID($user_id);
  $email = new Email($admin_email, '../email_templates/admin_user_registration_email.tpl', array('user' => $userInfo,'otherInfo' => $otherInfo));

  return $email->send();

 }

Now open the other file you found earlier named /templates/_system/email_templates/admin_user_registration_email.tpl.

Replace the entire contents with this code below. You can alter it any way you may need. I filter on all my email based on the subject. So, the subject line is important to me:

 {subject}New {if $user.user_group_sid=='41'}Employer{else}Job Seeker{/if} Registration{/subject}

{message}

<p>New user has just registered at {$GLOBALS.site_url}</p>

User ID:{$user.sid}<br />
User Name:{$user.username}<br />

{$otherInfo}
{/message} 

Finaly, open the file /system/user-scripts/users/registration.php. Find the line that has the following if statement on it. It should start around line 68 or so:

if (AdminNotifications::isAdminNotifiedOnUserRegistration()) {

 … bunch of code in here

}

Replace the entire if statement (from bracket to bracket) this code:

   if (AdminNotifications::isAdminNotifiedOnUserRegistration()) {

    foreach($_POST as $k=>$v)
    {
      if(is_array($v))
      {
        foreach ($v as $kk=>$vv)
        {
          if($kk != 'original') {$otherInfo .= ucfirst($k).": $vv<br />\n";}
        }
      }
      else
      {
        $otherInfo .= "$k: $v<br />\n";
      }
    }
   AdminNotifications::sendAdminUserRegistrationLetter($user->getSID(),$otherInfo);
  } 

This last piece of code grabs the users posted information from the registration form and passes it to the notifications class. The form fields captured in the posted registration are then added to the email template before being sent to the admin. 

And wa la… there you have it.  Let me know if this helps anybody out there.

Joe

2. Now in the system/user-scripts directory add the php file to do the work
example:
system/users-cripts
create and add contact_us.php with the code for processing

3. Now in templates add the template: probably best to copy one and modify it.
example:
create and add templates/_system/miscellaneous/contact_form.tpl
email_control.tpl ->copied from contactus
email_control.php ->copied from contactus
EmialControlForm.php ->copied from contactus
AdminNotifications.php -> added function for notification
admin_email_control_form_message.tpl -> copied from the contactus template
ObjectMother.php -> added CreateTemplate function

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