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CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints

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CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


So, here we have a basic job board application; it is capable of allowing people to create jobs, displaying those jobs, searching for jobs, and it also allows people to apply for these jobs. However, there are still areas of improvement and scope to add greater functionality; perhaps you could do the following:

  • Add e-mail confirmation for the applicant. You could add a functionality to the jobs/apply() function to send a confirmation e-mail to the applicant when they apply for a job.

  • Limit the number of applications. You could add a functionality to limit the number of job applications per job; logic would be needed to calculate which came first: the sunset date or the application limit.

  • You could paginate the results. Currently, all active jobs are displayed in the jobs/index() function. You might wish to add pagination to this, limiting the number of jobs per page to a set number—25 per page, for example.

  • You can have detailed search options. You could add a more complex search, perhaps...