Release of Jobline component for Mambo

Jobline was originally released as a component for Mambo. However, the original developer, Olle Johansson, stopped support for Mambo and continued development only for Joomla! The last release of Jobline, which is a job posting component, was version 1_1_2_2 in October 2006. It was released as "Jobline for Joomla 1.5", licensed under the GNU/General Public License.

I loved this component when I was using it back in 2005 and when a new Mambo site called for this functionality I did the only think I could do - I modified the script to work with Mambo.

I have today released Jobline for Mambo 2.0 on the Mambo code forge at http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/jobline/. This is a BETA release for one reason only - I don't use a WYSIWYG editor with Mambo so I did not take time to upgrade the code that allows frontend visitors to use the editor. Even if I did use an editor I still would not enable that functionality (plain text is adequate for posting jobs and exposing the editor to the frontend does carry some risks should the editor have any undiscovered vulnerabilities).

I won't be developing Jobline further but I hope that by putting it up on the forge another developer will offer to take it over. I won't be providing support for it either (not enough time in the day as it is!) however the documentation has been updated and support for the component itself should not be needed.

If you want a job posting extension for Mambo 4.6.3 or later, Jobline works well as long as you do not enable the default editor or frontend editing by unregistered users in the Jobline configuration. This does not affect your own use of the component and does not impact on the use of it by people who may want to post or apply for jobs. Like all free GPL scripts, it comes with no warranty but you are also free to modify it to suit your site.

Tip:
If you use Jobline for Mambo 2.0 you will want to style the forms. To avoid problems for people using the Mambo default templates I did not convert the table-based layout of the forms to divs (I may do that later on, for Mambo 4.7).
To style the forms just add this to your template_css.css file and adjust the widths to suit:

table.adminform {width: 500px !important;}
.adminForm input.inputbox {width: 200px !important;}
.adminForm textarea.inputbox {width: 335px !important;}
table.adminform td {padding: 10px 10px 0 0;}
#submitting {margin:0 auto; text-align: center;}