Auction Product Type

[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

[Wlarnett]

I have ran into the strangest glitch. I don't see any fixes for it, or even any reference to it in the threads yet. Bramnick I think you may be interested in this one..
The first bid (and ONLY the first bid) yields an error page. If you refresh the page, you will then see that your bid has been made. HOWEVER.. It gets even stranger..
IF another user is logged in at the same time.. they can actually refresh their page and it rebids at the lower bid they had previously made. (which makes this the new winning bid even though its lower) Either i really botched the install.. or.. well.. in all honesty its probably my fault.
I am running 1.38 with the newest release auction. (.98) If anyone would like to help me troubleshoot this issue.. im on yahoo messenger lewisarnettjr If you have time Bramnick, I would LOVE to have you help me with this (buy ya a cup of coffee.... )
The site is www.rockymountainvintageaudio.com (please don't make silly account names and bid on random stuff.. there is a test file there.. have fun with that one.)

Looking forward to any response.
Wlarnett

[mooncavecrystals]

Yes, I am having an issue too :) Not a real big one, but I am confuzzled :) I have a customer that has bid on some items. Others, she has not bid on. Yet, she received a Winning Bidder Notification this morning on one of the items she DID NOT bid on??? This has happened to her during a couple of tests too. She is the only one who has contacted me, but I figure if it is happening to her, it is happening to others, they just are not contacting me to figure out the confusion.

Any ideas????
Thanks!!

[bramnick]

This one is new...

I dont have a clue about the error page... what does it say? I HAVE seen odd "sessionID" errors, but I never looked into them since they didnt happen that often, AND i wasnt playing with that logic AND it never seemed to hurt me.

I need to crawl thru the bidding logic again. It will take me some time. I might want to play with your test item... But let me look at the code again first. Thanks for the yahooid, but i am not on that IM system (and dont have an interest in joining ) So email will have to do.


AHB

I have ran into the strangest glitch. I don't see any fixes for it, or even any reference to it in the threads yet. Bramnick I think you may be interested in this one..
The first bid (and ONLY the first bid) yields an error page. If you refresh the page, you will then see that your bid has been made. HOWEVER.. It gets even stranger..
IF another user is logged in at the same time.. they can actually refresh their page and it rebids at the lower bid they had previously made. (which makes this the new winning bid even though its lower) Either i really botched the install.. or.. well.. in all honesty its probably my fault.
I am running 1.38 with the newest release auction. (.98) If anyone would like to help me troubleshoot this issue.. im on yahoo messenger lewisarnettjr If you have time Bramnick, I would LOVE to have you help me with this (buy ya a cup of coffee.... )
The site is www.rockymountainvintageaudio.com (please don't make silly account names and bid on random stuff.. there is a test file there.. have fun with that one.)

Looking forward to any response.
Wlarnett

[wilbroek]

I was on a short holiday so I send you sonn as possible the Dutch Translation of this version of auction
gr wilbroek

[wilbroek]

I hope, bramnick, it is uploaded but I am not sure.
So let me now if is not succesfull uploaded

gr wilbroek