Auction Product Type

[vivaraquel]

I installed this mod on a test site I'm working on, it installed fine and seems to be working well thought I haven't placed bids or the like.

How to actually make it work after that I have no idea so seen as it has been made for a diff use I'd love to extarct what I need out of it but I don't know which bits I'll need.

I would assume that it would be easy enough for the maker of the mod to do a simple mod to add an expiry date to products and have the product disable once it expires.

Thank you.

[mooncavecrystals]

Set up a category for Auctions. When you go to add a new product, make sure you have selected "product auction" from the drop down menu. Once you click on New product there is a place to set a start date and an ending date and even a ending time. Once the ending date is done, the product is no longer available.
It's there, you just have to get in there and futz with it :)

Have fun! Its a great mod :)

[bramnick]

I just uploaded 0.97 It contains a published fix for mooncavecrystals request for 0.01 starting bid (down from 1.00)

Also prints previous bidder's ID instead of first and last names.

No other fixes or enhancements in here.

No DB changes required

ZC team is looking at the upload and once blessed they will place in download area.

[mooncavecrystals]

Hey B, the $0.01 thing was actually for Andy. I am the one that was having trouble getting the email to work when installing the new auction mod over the old one. Still having that issue but have no idea how to fix it. Any suggestions?

[vivaraquel]

I deleted all the files related to this mod and restored the original files which were changed. I also deleted the db tables associated with this mod.

However, the 2 products which I had set as an auction product can't be viewd in the catalog and can't be deleted even though they exist in the admin.

How do I get rid of them and the admin>configuration>auction manager form my admin?

Thank you.

[bramnick]

I deleted all the files related to this mod and restored the original files which were changed. I also deleted the db tables associated with this mod.

However, the 2 products which I had set as an auction product can't be viewd in the catalog and can't be deleted even though they exist in the admin.

How do I get rid of them and the admin>configuration>auction manager form my admin?

Thank you.

Interesting... sounds like a DB data problem.

The auction product does create a couple of new tables, but it also adds stuff to existing tables. I think there is where the problem is.

The way I would do it is by carefully removing the products from the "products" table. If you are NOT comfortable diddling directly with the DB (or finding someone who is) you will need to uninstall the product and DB and reinstall the base ZC then install the mod ontop.


Since this is a test system I am sure ;-) the easiest thing to do is uninstall the whole thing and start again. I do that on a fairly regular basis these days.

AHB

[AndyII]

I would tend to agree with that...
I have found on several mods that the installation was dependent on the table prefix standard of zen_ , and during installation of the cart a different prefix was chosen, so I then found the files that were making calls to the DB looking for zen_ and changed them to the one that was being used.
Mostly it will throw a sql error and it makes it very easy to locate and fix the problem.

[bramnick]

Sorry MCC - I clearly was confused... I cant think of why the mods would break the 1.3.7 mail. I didnt do anything to that package that touched the email. My test system DOES generate emails for OUTBID at the time of the OUTBID. It generates a WIN and LOSE message when someone looks at the page after the expiration time (which is annoying). Mine does NOT generate email when you place an initial BID (which is also annoying).

If I come across something, I will be sure to post it to you... I assume that a migration to the current code base isnt an easy option for you.

AHB

[AndyII]

bramnick,
can you recall what was changed to stop the bidders name from showing?
I was thinking about the possibility of using the forum nick, and if the data could be pulled from that table instead...

I just uploaded 0.97 It contains a published fix for mooncavecrystals request for 0.01 starting bid (down from 1.00)

Also prints previous bidder's ID instead of first and last names.

No other fixes or enhancements in here.

No DB changes required

ZC team is looking at the upload and once blessed they will place in download area.

[bramnick]

I would have to diff the source code for those 2 versions and see where it is. The change was small, it uses a different DB field is all.