fbf/laravel-jobs

A Laravel 4 package for adding jobs listings to a website

Laravel-Jobs

A Laravel 4 package for adding jobs listings to a website, _(*1)

Features

• Jobs index and detail page functionality with search
• Ability to apply for a job and upload a CV
• Jobs can be draft or approved
• Jobs can be permanent or temporary and part time or full time
• Flexible configurable way of having salaries associated with a job
• They have a published date that you can set in the future for delayed/scheduled publishing
• Job slugs are automatically created from the job title
• Control meta description and keywords of job detail pages for SEO purposes
• Uses soft deletes in case you need to retrieve old content
• Configure the rendered views so you can use one in your app rather than the one in the package
• Make use of partials in your own view so you can add extra stuff around the partial

Comes with a

• Migration for creating the fbf_jobs table (N.B. The search function makes use of MySQL Full Text search, so the engine is set to MyISAM)
• Model, controller and views (main view and partials)
• Built in configurable routes
• Faker seed to seed your database with loads of good test data

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file, _(*2)

"fbf/laravel-jobs": "dev-master"

Run, _(*3)

composer update

Add the following to app/config/app.php, _(*4)

'Fbf\LaravelJobs\LaravelJobsServiceProvider'

Publish the config, _(*5)

php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-jobs

Run the migration, _(*6)

php artisan migrate --package="fbf/laravel-jobs"

Optionally copy the administrator config to your administrators model config directory, if you have one, _(*7)

Configuration

There are loads of options in the config file, check it out., _(*8)

Administrator

You can use the excellent Laravel Administrator package by frozennode to administer your jobs., _(*9)

http://administrator.frozennode.com/docs/installation, _(*10)

A ready-to-use model config file for the Job model (jobs.php) is provided in the src/config/administrator directory of the package, which you can copy into the app/config/administrator directory (or whatever you set as the model_config_path in the administrator config file)., _(*11)

Faker seed

The package comes with a seed that can populate the table with a whole bunch of sample jobs. To run it:, _(*12)

php artisan db:seed --class="Fbf\LaravelJobs\JobsTableFakeSeeder"