Custom questions on registration form

darecia · July 8th, 2007, 08:56 AM

Hey all

Can anyone get their heads around this problem, which I've been asked to look into by a client with the hope of adding it to their website...

The site is a careers exchange, with two types of free membership - Agencies, and Applicants.

The site is hosted on RedHat Linux, and built using PHP5/MySQL.

The Agencies want the option to add five custom questions to the Applicant's registration form. Basically, depending on what vacancy they're applying for - that Agency's custom questions should be displayed (if any).

Does this make sense? Hope so - I've tried all ways but as yet the solution remains a little illusive!

Thanks in advance

John
Darecia Interactive
www.darecia.com

c010depunkk · July 8th, 2007, 11:44 AM

The question is still a bit vague. When do you want to display the custom fields? If its after the page is loaded then you'd have to do it with javascript. Otherwise you could either output the fields for an agency or applicant using PHP.

darecia · July 8th, 2007, 12:52 PM

Hi

The custom questions would be shown once the applicant has chosen a vacancy to apply for. This link would carry the vacancy ID number which would also show which Agency the ad belongs to (ie, in the database in an 'owner' column).

When they click on the 'Apply Now' link, they are taken to the application form, which would have the Agency's custom questions displayed for them to complete. (They are also prompted to log-in if they have not already done so).

Hope that made it a little clearer?

Thanks!

John
Darecia Interactive
www.darecia.com

c010depunkk · July 8th, 2007, 04:48 PM

Do you need help reading the questions out of the databank? Or out-putting them? Some code would help.

ablaye · July 9th, 2007, 11:53 PM

That would be easy to do if you know a bit of PHP (I assume you want to code it in PHP).
All you have to do is store the custom questions that the Agency creates when it posts a job. You can store these questions in a database or in a text file and associate the questions with a job ID.
When a user tries to apply for a particular job, you have to pull the questions associated with that job from the database or the textfile.
I could write skeleton code to do if I had the time.

c010depunkk · July 10th, 2007, 03:21 AM

Yea, that's simple enough. Even if you're a beginner it shouldn't be that hard to accomplish. Feel free to ask more questions when you start coding.