The recruitment system is one of the applications I built for cha-international while working there beside developing the Middle East & North Africa travel awards system, mail marketing system, and converting all their servers from windows to Linux.

In brief the system has the following features :

• Backend :

1. Managing countries, Nationalities, Languages, World Areas, System Announcements.
2. Managing Education Levels, Industries, Titles, Departments, System Reply Messages, Candidate Status, Candidates Classifications, and Quotes.
3. Testimonials section where the company can post its clients testimonials to be displayed in the frontend.
4. Managing 2 types of resumes : Uploaded Attachments, and Detailed filled forms Resumes.
5. Easy form for the data entry team to add the resumes from the backend.
6. Searching for candidates, using simple forms like name, email or advanced one which contains name, different nationalities, different languages, age, sex, industry, title, keyword in resume, etc.
7. Consultants area where they can post / close job posting, search  for candidates, export word version of resumes, add to their favorite list, recommend them to another consultant.
8. Consultants also can comment on the resumes, change their availability status to be seen by other consultants, and communicate with the candidate through the reply messages and keep track of those sent messages.
9. The system has a approval workflow engine, the admins have to check the resume to approve it first.
10. The system has a privileges section where the administrator can create a new role, assign access to certain areas in the backend to certain role, and assign the roles to system users.
11. Feedback system where the backend users can communicate with the administrator for support tickets, etc.
12. Auditrail system where every action in the system is logged.

• Frontend:

1. Simple upload form where users can just upload their resume and simple details.
2. Advanced profile form where users can fill in all the details, and add many attachments to their profiles.
3. Listing, Simple search, advanced search for jobs, and applying to them.
4. Clients area where they can request certain services.
5. Featured profiles, where a certain profiles selected by the admins showed in frontend.

The project was completely built from scratch using Zend Framework, and right now it has more than 70,000 applicant in its database, and the system is as fast as you see in the videos, these demos were taken with 50,000 record in the database.

Please don’t give me any feedback on the design , I am just a developer.

Here is some videos describing the different features of the system, I will try to post a better quality ones later.

Change your Signature

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Search Resumes

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Apply as New Candidate

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Send Feedback to support

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Consultant Functionality walk through

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Check who applied for your job

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Apply for Posted Job

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There is a smart trick i do in the ErrorController in my Zend Framework applications, i make the application send me the same error it displays to the user direct to my email, so i can know under what circumstances and conditions that error occurred.

The sweet thing is that when google bot or any search engine crawls my websites, they find some errors also, errors that i and the client didn’t reach, so i get the chance to fix it before any body see it.

I also sometimes disable viewing the error message and display “Some errors has occurred and the support has been notified, sorry for the inconvenience” and provide a link to go to Homepage for example.

Below is the code i have in my ErrorController :

    $errors = $this->_getParam('error_handler');
        switch ($errors->type) {
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_CONTROLLER:
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ACTION:
                // 404 error -- controller or action not found                
                $this->getResponse()->setRawHeader('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
                $this->view->title = 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found';
                break;
            default:
                // application error; display error page, but don't change                
                // status code
                $this->view->title = 'Application Error';
                break;
        }
        $body = 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found' . "<br>";
        $body .= $errors->exception . "<br>";
        $body .= "IP Address: " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "<br>";
        $body .= "User Agent: " . $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "<br>";
        $body .= "Lang: " . $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] . "<br>";
        $body .= "Referer Link: " . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] . "<br>";
        $body .= "Requested URL" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . "<br>";
 
 
 
		$mail = new Zend_Mail();
		$mail->setBodyHtml($body);
		$mail->setFrom('support@somesite.com', 'Website Support');
		$mail->addTo("ahmed.abdelaliem@mysite.com.com", "Ahmed Abdel-ALiem");
		$mail->setSubject('Sitename Error Occurred');
		$mail->send();
 
 
 
        $this->view->message = $errors->exception;

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very usefull

URL : www.ZendCasts.com

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to do that you need to call the following 2 methods in your Action :

$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(); // Disable the viewscript
$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();  // Disable the layout

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About the author :
http://www.survivethedeepend.com/zendframeworkbook/en/1.0/introduction#zfbook.introduction.me

To read the book :

http://www.survivethedeepend.com/zendframeworkbook/en/1.0

About the book (quoted from the book):

Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End is written in the form of a detailed tutorial following a step by step approach to building a real life application. Topics are grouped where it makes sense and there will be continual references to earlier chapters which serves to reinforce what you’re learning as you read. The book was designed to bring together elements of the Reference Guide, the growing body of community knowledge and my own personal experience so developers can see the bigger picture of developing a real application with the Zend Framework.No comments

To my mind that’s always been the framework’s main problem since the Reference Guide adds little beyond explaining each framework component in total isolation. It doesn’t offer a development approach, ways of thinking or a list of advanced topics which combine components. You should note though that this book is not a replacement for the Zend Framework Reference Guide. It’s assumed you can do some independent reading of the Reference Guide. The Guide is free, detailed, and reasonably easy to search. This book is a complement to it, not a replacement.No comments

The book also includes the full source code of the application within the text, and may repeat it several times to highlight new changes I am making. I understand that pages of source code can sometimes be frustrating but it does enforce clarity and I value clarity a great deal. For simplicity the full finalised source code of each chapter is available as a separate internet download.No comments

I will over time refer to several external libraries, other than the Zend Framework, which you are expected to install. These will include PEAR, Blueprint CSS Framework, jQuery, HTMLPurifier and PHPUnit. I know from experience this can be unpopular with some people but I assure you that their installation will be covered in detail and is quite straightforward even for beginners. You should bear in mind a real life application will require numerous external libraries!No comments

Finally, note that this book assumes a basic working knowledge of PHP 5, SQL, and Object Oriented Programming (OOP). These are necessary skills if you intend learning the Zend Framework but will not be covered by this book in detail. Since PHP is so simple to learn though, I don’t doubt you can find countless resources online to get you started down the road towards PHP Guru status.

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enjoy reading

To read the book :

http://www.survivethedeepend.com/zendframeworkbook/en/1.0

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Get “Rich” Quick : Building Ajax-based RIAs with the Zend Framework and Appcelerator

i didn’t hear about the Appcelerator thing before, but the title was really interesting as i use Zend framework extensively and it is a great idea to add some interactivity and UI to my apps.

after watching the webinars, i really liked the idea of being able to build the full prototype and have it working with no server side code, and then in the development phase with some slight changes to the prototype, it becomes the working front end interacting with the server side code with no problems @ all.

i went to try.appcelerator.org and gave it a try on the fly, that got me more interested. so i downloaded the sdk installer for MAC and installed it, the installation was at ease, even creating the projects and testing.

Appcelerator supports what we call “technology driven agile development” and we call that process Interactive Use Cases.

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recently me and my flex developer colleague had a weird problem while exchanging data from zend framework to flex as web services using json.

well, 1st caution :

<?php echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

don’t ever use a closing tag ” ?> ” in your controllers or classes, as it will result in new line in the output json data, which will make flex not able to recognize it correctly.

2nd caution :

<?php echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

when u echo output from php don’t leave space between the variable and the equal “=” sign and also between the equal “=” sign and the value.
to be clear :
example 1 :

This won’t work as flex will not recognize a value for the variable Json.
example 2 :

This will work because we removed the spaces.

hope u don’t fall in this trap as we did.
& enjoy

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here is the link for the news i got :
http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/07/adobe-to-contribute-amf-support-to-zend.html

and here is the link for the proposal :
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Amf

Enjoy

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steps are easy :
1- go to www.gmail.com and open your mail account.
2- click on the calendar link on the top left of the page.
3- in the calendar page click on settings on the top right of the page.
4- click on mobile setup tab.
5- enter your mobile number and then you will recieve a confirmation code,
6- enter the confirmation code and verify.
7- you will be redirected to notifications page, enable all SMS notifications, and setup default reminders for each event, you can setup up to 5 reminders.

you are done, and you can setup repeated events, for example i setup a daily event to wake me up by sms every morning.

another trick if you want to send sms to another person and you have no credit , just enter a new event, with the title

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