Create a Jobs Board With CodeIgniter: New Plus Tutorial
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Create a Jobs Board With CodeIgniter: New Premium Tutorial

on Jun 24th 2009 with 44 comments
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In this two-part series, we’ll be creating a basic ‘Jobs Board’, similar to “FreelanceSwitch Jobs” and “Smashing Jobs”, using the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Sign up!

“This tutorial series will not serve as a beginners guide to CodeIgniter, however you don’t need much experience with it either. I’d recommend to at the least, have an understanding of what an MVC (Model, View, Controller) system is and to have had some experience creating a simple application with CodeIgniter.

Just having been through the video tutorials on CodeIgniter’s website, and a look through the beginners guide to CI here on Nettuts will be enough!”

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Dan is passionate about an open, semantic web and loves playing around with the latest bleeding-edge technologies in our industry. He works mostly in PHP, but wishes he only had the time/job to pick up Rails fully. He’s studying Web Technologies at the University of Portsmouth and is currently Lead Developer at Radweb.  

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  • http://www.imblog.info Muhammad Adnan

    nice , i will also start learning CI.
    i like to do work with MCV ..

    good job DAN.

    • Keith

      MVC? :)

      • http://www.imblog.info Muhammad Adnan

        MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER.

        it is good for managing the structure of the site.

      • Scott

        I’m sure he knows what it means, he was correcting your spelling. ;)

  • http://kwaa.crownz.info/ Kwaa

    I have never worked with frameworks.. exept for jQuery obviously.
    But it looks nice a nice tut, i’ll check it out later.

    • http://eyoosuf.blogspot.com Yoosuf

      :D, WordPress also a framework :P

      • StruC

        It’s not.

      • Levente Nagy

        WordPress is not a framework :)

  • http://vivalacollege.com Kevin Urrutia

    Very nice i love codeigniter :)

  • http://www.twitter.com/chriscandy Christer

    Please don’t use “Test text”, “Another listing”, etc in the article pictures. gives a little less professional feeling. Use relevant and plausible example text. It’s better to use Lorem Ipsum.

    Anyways. Haven’t seen the tut yet, but will do that now. Pretty sure that I gonna enjoy the tutorial.

    • http://danharper.me Dan Harper
      Author

      Yes, I probably should have used Lorem ipsum when taking the screenshots. I never really played attention to the text, tbh.

      I’ll keep it in mind for later tutorials, thanks :)

      • Stephen

        It is irrelevant what text is used. “Test text” is just fine. It is the semantics that matters!

  • Dave

    Nice tut,

    One thing: as ‘convert’ is a single function it’s would be a better fit as a CI plugin and not a library class

    • http://danharper.me Dan Harper
      Author

      I’ll keep that in mind, thanks! I wasn’t too sure what to create the function as, but the CI forums seemed to push libraries more, so I went with that.

  • http://labs.dariux.com Dario Gutierrez

    Interesting dude.

  • http://myfacefriends.com Myfacefriends

    very nice! thanks!

  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br/ Diego SA

    Jobs board? Great!

  • http://www.google.com Poor prince

    I don’a have much money to join, but I realy want to learn..

    :( very sad….

    Im interest with CI.

    Please make it FREE…….

  • http://mohamedaslam.com Mohamed Aslam

    Very good effort! I have to subscribe the NETTUTS+ very soon!
    Anyway thank you for the tutorial in advance..!

  • http://www.packetport.net Mephux

    Way Little, Way Late! Honestly, with rails why do people even use PHP anymore?

  • Ian

    I don’t have a plus membership but this looks like a good tutorial. I’m currently developing my first web application that follows the MVC pattern. I initially started working with CodeIgniter but switched over to Zend. I highly recommend checking out Zend. The learning curve is defiantly a bit more steep but it’s worth it imo.

  • http://atroxide.com Atroxide

    Could I get more details on what all this covers?

    Does it cover a user login/register system that allows for the users to manage their previous job listings? or is it an anonymous board.

    • http://danharper.me Dan Harper
      Author

      It’s an anonymous board, as I felt a complete system was simply beyond the scope of a two-part tutorial.

      We create a front page displaying all the listings available. Click on any listing to be taken to it’s ‘details’ page.
      In the site’s sidebar we display the categories. Click one to see the listings for that category only.
      Also in the sidebar is an ‘Add a Listing’ button. On that page is a basic form to fill out. We run a number of validation checks on the submitted data. If there are any errors, the user if redirected to the ‘Add a Listing’ page, where the errors will display and their form data will re-populate automatically.
      Otherwise, the data is inserted into the database.

      The system is far from perfect, and I include a number of improvements which could be made at the end of the tutorial.

  • http://www.mindred.co.uk Steve

    Finally a codeigniter tutorial – please do more of these. I have a hard time finding them on the net!

  • jodu38

    grrreeatt job =) cleaner and nicer than the Symfony’s “Jobeet” tutorial ! I love CI and still making some great apps with it !

    Thank you !
    Please more tutorials with CI ! =)

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    super tut thank you!

  • http://www.calhouncreations.com Shane Calhoun

    Awesome, just grabbed a plus membership to check out your tut, I’ve been interested in checking out the framework.

  • http://www.freshclickmedia.com Shane

    Looks good!

  • http://dotseo.org/ SEO Paw

    Nice job, looks very good! Thank u!

  • http://www.philfreelanceweb.com PhilFreelance

    This is a great tutorial in learning MVC framework. I’m also start working on the CI Framework and it’s a very great learning.

  • matt

    Superb tutorial, sir.

    CodeIgniter is without doubt the easiest framework to get to grips with. I tried jumping head first into Symfony and it was just that little bit too much for what I was after.

    Great tutorial, great site. Keep up with the Codeigniter tutorials please!

  • http://danharper.me Dan Harper
    Author

    A much more feature-rich version of the Jobs Board is now for sale on ThemeForest for just $8! http://bit.ly/t4mrh

    Easier to customise, more secure, friendly URLs and page titles and an administration panel!

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  • Cuijiudai

    It is the members’birthday ,not our’s.

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  • http://twitter.com/xrommelx xRommelx

    i have a problem with this tutorial
    in details section, i saw an error like this
    “Trying to get property of non-object”

    can you help me please

  • http://www.nextlevel-marketing.dk Kim S.

    Just grabbed your skin. Have a project I will use them for.

  • Martin

    Is part 2 of this available yet? I want to sign up for a premium account to go through this but not it’s only half a tutorial.

  • AjnabiZ

    Hello

    I am thinking of purchasing the premium account.

    Can this tutorial be used to create a Classified Ads site in Codeigniter ?

  • http://www.kesitus.com/ rizky

    I was interested and I will study further codeigniter. :)

    I Love Codeigiter MVC

  • Darrian Kendall

    How do you create separate links to pages through the jobs (controller)? Confusing