The new Collections Questions & Answers Board is the first of its kind in the Credit and Collections Industry. Specialists from all fields can use it to share information and get answers to questions.  Typical users will be medical collectors, third party collectors, debt buyers, debt sellers, asset recovery specialists, skip tracers, collection agencies, collections attorneys, collections firms, commercial collectors, collections software agents and the full range of professionals in the Industry.  However, consumers will be able to use the site also to get answers to questions and expert input from the specialist mentioned above.

The debt collections questions and answers site is a great way to let consumers and debtors have direct access to debt collection experts.  People in the collections industry can also get direct feed back from debtors and help explain some of the questions people with outstanding debts sometimes have.

From an Internet Technology perspective, the addition of the debt collections questions and answers is a great way to add value to the site, create good wholesome content, and help people all that the same time. In addition to adding content people can subscribe the the RSS feeds to keep current with new content being added to the website. 

ProCollectionJobs.com has now added several sections to their site including debt industry news, collection industry press releases, and most recently the Questions and Answers Board.  ProCollectionJobs.com is quickly surrounding the Collections, and Accounts Receivable Industry.  They are also planning the launch of a massive marketing campaign that will utilize traditional marketing avenues such as TV, news paper, and high level online advertising.  They average 15% to 20% growth per quarter in the network of companies utilizing there services. ProCollectionJobs.com is the leading online job board for the collections industry boasting over 700 companies that use there career services.

ProCollectionJobs.com is poised to close a transaction this month with a small network of companies. This network includes skip tracing companies, collection agencies and long standing debt buyers.  This venture will launch ProCollectionJobs.com into the debt market.  Within the next 4 months the venture will see over 100 million dollars of debt purchased, skip traced and placed creating hundreds of jobs for specialists in the Industry.  

For more information visit: ProCollectionJobs.com

1) Notify any visitors that the job has been filled or has expired.

2) Let the job description display still for visitors to be able to learn more about that type of work and also for content and SEO reasons.

3) Remove the "Apply Now" button.

Keep in mind that you need access to the source code, for this you must have the full licenced version of smartjobboard. Here is how we accomplished the three items listed above:

You will need to open two files:

1)  /system/user-scripts/classifieds/display_listing.php
2)  /templates/SmartJobBoard/classifieds/display_job.tpl

In /system/user-scripts/classifieds/display_listing.php find the following lines and comment them out as shown below, they should be around line 33 or so…

//commetning the lines below will show the inactive job
//elseif (!$listing->isActive() && $listing->getUserSID() != UserManager::getCurrentUserSID()) {
//    $errors['LISTING_IS_NOT_ACTIVE'] = false;
//}

This should effectively display the job even after it goes inactive….

Next, open /templates/SmartJobBoard/classifieds/display_job.tpl. Search for "$listing.Title". This will most likely be the first row in a HTML table tag "<table …><tr>". Add the following code so that it is the first table row:

   <table width="100%">

            {if !$listing.Active}
              <tr colspan="2">
                <td>
                  <h2>
                  <font color="red">This job has been filled or the job listing has expired! Use the quick search links below to search for other job opportunities in your area.</font><br />
                  </h2>
            <a href="http://www.procollectionjobs.com/find_jobs/">Advanced jobs Search</a> |
            <a href="http://www.procollectionjobs.com/browse_by_category/">Find jobs by Category</a> |
            <a href="http://www.procollectionjobs.com/browse_by_city/">Find jobs by City</a> |
            <a href="http://www.procollectionjobs.com/browse_by_company/">Find jobs by Company</a>
            <br />&nbsp;
                  <hr>
                </td>
              </tr>
            {/if}

Of course, replace the domain name with the domain of your site in the snippet above.  You should find the table tag somewhere around line 165 or so… 

Hope this helps somebody. We encourage your comments, let us know if it does or if you need help to edit the source code above.

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:
———————————————————————-

if ( !Notifications::sendApplyNow($post,"files/files/".$file_name,$listing_info, $current_user_sid, $notRegisterUserData) )
      $errors['SEND_ERROR'] = true;;;

———————————————————————-

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:

———————————————————————-

   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)

———————————————————————-

  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:

———————————————————————-

{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}

———————————————————————-

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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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