Auction Product Type

[bramnick]

I have uploaded V.98 of the auction mod. Hopefully it will clear customs soon.

PLEASE PLEASE read the install.txt file. There are DB changes and an optional cron job that you need to understand.

There are behavior changes. I like them, but you might not.

As always backup everything including the DB before playing with this. If you or any member of your team are caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of you action... Good luck Jim!

AHB

[nataliajoe]

Hi,

first of all.. thanks! I have been waiting for some updates last year unti i gave up. only today i found out that there is an update to the mod!

However, I've the old version 0.95 installed on my zencart 1.37 verson, which I still not intend to upgrade to v1.38 yet. worried.. i dunno how to upgrade. sigh..

but now my question is, if this v.98 (strange, still see v0.97 at the download section) can be used at zencart 1.37 version? how should i go about doing it? do i have to uninstall the old v.95 to install this new one? if yes, how to uninstall it?

finally, anyone try it with zencart 1.37?

i saw that the minimum bid increment has been set to 0.01, but in fact I think this should be changeable at the store owner level right? if we want a different minimum bid increment, how can I change that over at my end?

so many questions in my head that i dunno where to start yet.. sorry..

thanks,
nat

[bramnick]

Hi,

first of all.. thanks! I have been waiting for some updates last year unti i gave up. only today i found out that there is an update to the mod!

However, I've the old version 0.95 installed on my zencart 1.37 verson, which I still not intend to upgrade to v1.38 yet. worried.. i dunno how to upgrade. sigh..

but now my question is, if this v.98 (strange, still see v0.97 at the download section) can be used at zencart 1.37 version? how should i go about doing it? do i have to uninstall the old v.95 to install this new one? if yes, how to uninstall it?

finally, anyone try it with zencart 1.37?

i saw that the minimum bid increment has been set to 0.01, but in fact I think this should be changeable at the store owner level right? if we want a different minimum bid increment, how can I change that over at my end?

so many questions in my head that i dunno where to start yet.. sorry..

thanks,
nat

I think there are others that have tried my 0.97 (and a beta of 0.98) version on 1.3.7. There are only 2 files that overlay the base ZC code. They are listed in the install.txt file. Of you carefully move the auction related lines from my version of those modules to the 1.3.7 versions, AND overlay all the 0.95 version files with 0.98 AND do the update SQL it SHOULD work.

YOU CANNOT JUST DROP MY VERSIONS OF THOSE 2 FILES ON TOP OF 1.3.7 VERSIONS...

I have not tested this, but others in the forum who have might jump in.

Clearly you dont want to play with this on a production system....

The 0.01 increment is the MINIMUM. The auction item creation page allows you to set ANY increment you want, item by item.

[velvetangels]

I wanted to say thank you for this mod. It is working perfect for me on 1.38a.

I did want to say there was 2 things I noticed.

When I did install it and tested an auction. I was the first to bid on it and I got an Undeliverable email. It said that I was outbid on the website but I was the first bidder. I think it was trying to send to the last person that bid but since I was first it shouldnt have sent.

Is this a bug or just a quirk of my system?

Still waiting for the auction to end to test everything but thank you once again for the great work.

[bramnick]

I wanted to say thank you for this mod. It is working perfect for me on 1.38a.

I did want to say there was 2 things I noticed.

When I did install it and tested an auction. I was the first to bid on it and I got an Undeliverable email. It said that I was outbid on the website but I was the first bidder. I think it was trying to send to the last person that bid but since I was first it shouldnt have sent.

Is this a bug or just a quirk of my system?

Still waiting for the auction to end to test everything but thank you once again for the great work.

I have NO idea why that happened. I have heard that the mod is quirky about sendmails but I havent had trouble...

PLEASE play with it before you put it into production.

If you can give me more details on the quirk, I am interested.

Cheers!
AHB

[velvetangels]

I have NO idea why that happened. I have heard that the mod is quirky about sendmails but I havent had trouble...

PLEASE play with it before you put it into production.

If you can give me more details on the quirk, I am interested.

Cheers!
AHB

Ok tested it with a test auction and I wasnt able to get the cron job to work I think. I did enable it and it took me a few times to get the cron job to point to the right file and php -f didnt work on my shared server but once I got it to point and permissions and everything write it didnt seem to do anything.

Going to try it without the cron to see how it works.

[wilbroek]

Thank you also fot the update v0.98 version. I have made the translation in Dutch.
There are two slight problems.
1) In admin\includes\modules\product_auction\collect_info.php is smaal problem with the FCKeditor this was also a problen in the former versions,
There is no FCKeditor only a fold in rule 464.
I give you here by mine solution.
462 <?php if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE=="FCKEDITOR") {
463// if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE=="FCKEDITOR") require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES.'fckeditor.php');
464 $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor ('products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']') ; // problem sold
465 $oFCKeditor->Value = (isset($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']])) ? stripslashes($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_products_description($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']) ;
466// $oFCKeditor->Create() ;
467 $oFCKeditor->Width = '99%' ;
468 $oFCKeditor->Height = '300' ;
469// $output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ; echo $output;
470 $oFCKeditor->Create( 'products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']' ) ; //instanceName, width, height (px or %)
471
472
473 } else { // using HTMLAREA or just raw "source"
474
475 echo zen_draw_textarea_field('products_description[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', 'soft', '100%', '20', (isset($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']])) ? stripslashes($products_description[$languages[$i]['id']]) : zen_get_products_description($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id'])); //,'id="'.'products_description' . $languages[$i]['id'] . '"');
476 } ?>

If I did it on this way I get the FCKeditor perfect.

2) When you make a bid and submit It you cann't overbid yourself.
That is a problem when you make use of reserved price.
When someone make a bid and get the massage Reserved Price is Not Met, he can make no other bid till someone else has made a bid.

sorry for my language gr wilbroek

[bramnick]

wilbroek,
thanks for the code for the FCKeditor. I will add it.

thanks also for the dutch translation, send me the modules and I will include them in the source tree.

you are right. i can see where if you cant outbid outbid yourself, you cant buy it now. I will fix that.. good catch!

no apologies necessary for your language, your english is much better than my dutch!

ahb

[bramnick]

wilbroek,

Thanks for the FCKEditor code. I downloaded and installed the mod and installed your code. It works fine

To allow a bidder to outbid themselves ONLY if the current bid is lower than the reserve price you need to replace 1 line of code in

......./includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_auction_info_display.php
Line 167


FROM:
<?php if ($customer_high_bidder != $_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>


TO:
<?php if (($customer_high_bidder != $_SESSION['customer_id']) || ($products_reserve_price > $auction_current_bid)) { ?>

It works on my machine :-)

Both code changes will be in V.99. So far those are the only 2 changes, so I dont have any plans now to post an update. At some point, I will do it anyway just for completeness.

If you send on the Dutch translation modules, I would be happy to include them in the source tree. PM me if you are interested and I will send you my email address.

AHB