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[brentwilliams2 Friend brentwilliams2Join date: January 2013Posts: 231Downloads:0Uploads:23 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 33 times in 1 posts]

#192165

Currently, if your job seeker adds a keyword to the job alert, it only searches the description field. I wanted it to also search a custom “City” field I had made, so that job seekers could get updates when a job was posted in their city. So to do this, I had to edit helper/jafunctions.class.php. Find the following section:

if ($result_list[$i]->keyword) {
switch ($result_list[$i]->keyword_option) {
case 1 :
$tem_keyword = explode(' ', $result_list[$i]->keyword_option);

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if ($tem_keyword [$j] == '') {
unset($tem_keyword [$j]);
}
}

$result_keyword = false;

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if (strpos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false || strpos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false) {
$result_keyword = true;
break;
}
}

if (!$result_keyword) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;

case 2 :
$tem_keyword = explode(' ', $result_list[$i]->keyword_option);

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if ($tem_keyword [$j] == '') {
unset($tem_keyword [$j]);
}
}

$result_keyword = true;

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if (!(stripos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false) && !(stripos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false)) {
$result_keyword = false;
break;
}
}

if (!$result_keyword) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;

case 3 :
if (!is_numeric((stripos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false)) && ! is_numeric((stripos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false))) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;
}
}

I modified it within each “case” to have it look in my custom field, as well. So you can use the following code, BUT you need to change $job->city to your custom field.

if ($result_list[$i]->keyword) {
switch ($result_list[$i]->keyword_option) {
case 1 :
$tem_keyword = explode(' ', $result_list[$i]->keyword_option);

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if ($tem_keyword [$j] == '') {
unset($tem_keyword [$j]);
}
}

$result_keyword = false;

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if (strpos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false || strpos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false || strpos($job->city, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false) {
$result_keyword = true;
break;
}
}

if (!$result_keyword) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;

case 2 :
$tem_keyword = explode(' ', $result_list[$i]->keyword_option);

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if ($tem_keyword [$j] == '') {
unset($tem_keyword [$j]);
}
}

$result_keyword = true;

for ($j = 0; $j < count($tem_keyword); $j++) {
if (!(stripos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false) && !(stripos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false) && !(stripos($job->city, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false)) {
$result_keyword = false;
break;
}
}

if (!$result_keyword) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;

case 3 :
if (!is_numeric((stripos($job->title, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false)) && ! is_numeric((stripos($job->job_detail, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false)) && ! is_numeric((stripos($job->city, $result_list[$i]->keyword) !== false))) {
$checkKey = false;
}

break;
}
}

Please note that I think this may only work when all fields of the alert match all fields of the job. For example, if the job seeker does not input a location in the alert, this will not work.

Hope that helps!

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