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Doing it myself
The job posting system I've had up for probably 2+ years now has been hurting for a while now. The
people who developed it disappeared and thus it's never been upgraded, etc. It being a Perl .cgi script has limitations on customization
and integrating into the site. So I've been meaning to get a new system.
Problem is, there just haven't been any good PHP job posting systems that I could find. Found one today though, which wasn't all
that bad. Cost me $29.95, which isn't bad.
Once I got the script and started poking around, I realized that as with most of these scripts, they were put together by developers
who didn't have much consideration for the plight of the designers and those who have to customize the front-end of a script. At
least they didn't try and be accomodating and screw it all up even more by pulling elements apart in disastrous ways (I had SOOO much
fun customizing the front-end of the search engine on the site. Makes it impossible to upgrade without doing it all over again).
So I am now debating whether I should just build one from scratch. Either that, or I spend a lot of time pulling apart this one and
hacking it to work the way I need it too. Not that I know at this point in time how to write it all from scratch. But it's the
natural extension of the PHP and MySQL I've been learning/using over the last year.
If I develop my own system, I can include elements that I've really been hoping for. Would love to build a sort of open-source, central
system for new media jobs that sites could tie & feed into so that you don't have a few jobs over here, some over there, etc.
