I´m not a coder, I´m a designer, I make the website look good not funtional, so I need a little help, I can undersand what a php file is doing by looking at the code, but sometimes the whole logic of it confuses me and I´m not too good at rewriting code on my own, so I hope anybody can help me by indicating me what files should I change, where to look at and what to replace with..... I´ll appreciate the help.

Thank you Filipcte, evsion, links and Tokyoj for keeping the forum updated... Keep up the good work, you guys are really helping us out here.

you must open the file: app\_templates\footer.tpl
and add your ads at the top or at the bottom of code, this is a sample with google ads  ( http://www.lavorohotel.net ) on the top:
----------------
  <div align="center">
    <script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-0153864788629906";
/* 728x90, created 30/08/08 */
google_ad_slot = "3768831983";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
  </script>
    <script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
  </script>
</div>
    </div><!-- #container -->
    <div class="footer">
        <div id="footer-contents">
            <div id="footer-col1">
                {$translations.footer.column_use}:<br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}post/" title="{$translations.footer.new_job_title}">{$translations.footer.new_job}</a><br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.widgets.url}/" title="{$articles.widgets.page_title}">{$articles.widgets.title}</a><br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}rss/" title="{$translations.footer.rss_title}">{$translations.footer.rss}</a><br />
            </div>
            <div id="footer-col2">
                {$translations.footer.column_find}:<br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.about.url}/" title="{$articles.about.page_title}">{$articles.about.title}</a><br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.contact.url}/" title="{$articles.contact.page_title}">Contact</a>
            </div>
            <div id="footer-col3">
                {$translations.footer.column_misc}:<br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}companies/" title="{$translations.footer.companies_title}">{$translations.footer.companies}</a><br />
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}sitemap/" title="{$translations.sitemap.title}">{$translations.sitemap.title}</a><br />
            </div>
            <div id="footer-copyright">
                {$translations.footer.powered_by}
                <a href="http://www.jobberbase.com/" title="open source job board software">jobberBase</a>
            </div>
            <div class="clear"></div>
        </div><!-- #footer-contents -->
    </div><!-- .footer -->
    {literal}
    <script type="text/javascript">
        //<![CDATA[
       
        $(document).ready(function()
        {
           var keywords = $('#keywords');
            // setup search box
            keywords.bind('click', function() {
                if (this.value == '{/literal}{$translations.search.default}{literal}')
                {
                    keywords.clearFields();
                }
            });

            keywords.bind('blur', function() { 
                if (this.value == '{/literal}{$translations.search.default}{literal}' || this.value == '')
                {
                    this.value = '{/literal}{$translations.search.default}{literal}';
                }
            });

            // setup live search
            keywords.keyup(function(key) {
                if (this.value == '')
                {
                    $('#job-listings').load('{/literal}{$BASE_URL}{literal}search/{/literal}{$current_category}{literal}|/');
                }
                //var len = document.getElementById('keywords').value.length;
                var len = this.value.length;
              if (key.keyCode != 9 && len >= 3)
                {
                    $("#indicator").show();   
                    clearTimeout(window.search_timer);   
                    window.search_timer = setTimeout("Jobber.PerformSearch('{/literal}{$BASE_URL}{literal}search/{/literal}{$current_category}{literal}|')", 800);
              }
            });
        });
        Jobber.jobber_url = "{/literal}{$BASE_URL}{literal}";
        //]]>
    </script>
    {/literal}
    {php}
      if (isset($_SESSION['status']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['status']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['apply_mail_sent']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['apply_mail_sent']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['apply_errors']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['apply_errors']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['apply_fields']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['apply_fields']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['contact_msg_sent']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['contact_msg_sent']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['contact_errors']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['contact_errors']);
        }
        if (isset($_SESSION['contact_fields']))
        {
            unset($_SESSION['contact_fields']);
        }
    {/php}
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1133324-39");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
</html>

Last edited by matteoraggi (2008-08-30 18:00:18)

I think this type of sponsored ads, will be ready for next versions, ad they are developing and testing it, here sample of ads on the header:
you must open the file: app\_templates\header.tpl
and add your ads at the middle of code, this is a sample with google ads  ( http://www.lavorohotel.net ) on the middle center:
--------------------------------------

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>{$html_title}</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
    <meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
    <meta name="author" content="Filip Cherecheş-Toşa (http://www.filipcte.ro)" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{$BASE_URL}favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
    {if $CURRENT_PAGE == '' || $CURRENT_PAGE != 'jobs'}
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="{$BASE_URL}rss/all/" />
    {else}
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="{$BASE_URL}rss/{$current_category}/" />
    {/if}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$BASE_URL}css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$BASE_URL}css/print.css" media="print" type="text/css" />
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <!--[if !IE]><script src="{$BASE_URL}js/jquery.history.js" type="text/javascript"></script><![endif]-->
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/jquery.form.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/cmxforms.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/jquery.metadata.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/jquery.validate.pack.js" type="text/javascript" charset="iso-8859-1"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/interface.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/functions.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="{$BASE_URL}js/browser_detect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="container">
        {if $smarty.session.status neq ''}
            <div id="status">
                {$smarty.session.status}
            </div><!-- #status -->
        {/if}
        <div id="header">
            <h1 id="logo"><a href="{$BASE_URL}" title="{$translations.header.title}">{$translations.header.name}</a></h1>
            <ul id="top">
                <li><a href="{$BASE_URL}ideal-job/" title="{$translations.header.ideal_job_title}">{$translations.header.ideal_job}</a></li>
                <li>&bull;</li>
                <li><a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.widgets.url}/" title="{$articles.widgets.page_title}">{$articles.widgets.title}</a></li>
                <li>&bull;</li>
                <li><a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.about.url}/" title="{$articles.about.page_title}">{$articles.about.title}</a></li>
                <li>&bull;</li>
                <li><a href="{$BASE_URL}{$articles.contact.url}/" title="{$articles.contact.page_title}">Contact</a></li>
            </ul>
            <div id="the_feed">
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}rss/all/" title="{$translations.header.rss_title}"><img src="{$BASE_URL}img/bt-rss.gif" alt="{$translations.header.contact_alt}" /></a>
            </div>
        </div><!-- #header -->
       
        <div id="box">
            <div id="search">
                <form id="search_form" method="post" action="{$BASE_URL}search/">
                    <fieldset>
                        <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" maxlength="30" value="{if $keywords}{$keywords}{else}{$translations.search.default}{/if}" />
                        <span id="indicator" style="display: none;"><img src="{$BASE_URL}img/ajax-loader.gif" alt="" /></span>
                        <label class="suggestionTop">{$translations.search.example}</label>
                    </fieldset>
                </form>
            </div><!-- #search -->
            <div class="addJob">
                <a href="{$BASE_URL}post/" title="{$translations.search.title}" class="add">{$translations.search.submit}</a>
            </div><!-- .addJob -->
        </div><!-- #box -->
          <div align="center">
          <br>
        <script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-0153864788629906";
/* 728x90, created 30/08/08 */
google_ad_slot = "3768831983";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></DIV>
       
    <div id="categs-nav">
      <ul>
                {section name=tmp loop=$categories}
        <li id="{$categories[tmp].var_name}" {if $current_category == $categories[tmp].var_name}class="selected"{/if}><a href="{$BASE_URL}jobs/{$categories[tmp].var_name}/" title="{$categories[tmp].var_name}"><span>{$categories[tmp].name}</span><span class="cnr">&nbsp;</span></a></li>
                {/section}
        </ul>
        </div><!-- #categs-nav -->
        <div class="clear"></div>
       
        <div id="sidebar">
            {include file="sidebar.tpl"}
        </div><!-- #sidebar -->

Last edited by matteoraggi (2008-08-30 18:02:28)

the author

I have done something similar using an open source ad serving product. http://www.openx.org/

You need to install the software, but then it gives you a lot of flexibility to publish and track ad campaigns. Just place the ad code into the sidebar.tpl as per above and you are set.

My question is - if the author of JobberBase managed to create sponsored jobs (sticky on front page or categories) on his own jobboard, why can't he share this knowledge?

Even the basic informations like what and where to code could be useful.

Last edited by Mastergreed (2008-09-17 10:34:14)

I think people don't understand what we are talking about here - this topic is not about AdSense, Text Link Ads or other banners-stuff-ads! We are talking about implementing sponsored job ads. You're paying, and you have your job sticked on the front page.

Show me an example.

I would like to do this to, I even want to pay a small fee for a good working system.

Plain HTML?
I thought I was the only one who did this.

Well, I think plain HTML is a cool solution, considering my site isn't successful enough to spend time programming this function. I'll give a try to OpenX http://www.openx.org/, cause it's not the first time I hear about it.