Auction Product Type

[bramnick]

I am looking at the email code... I dont think I am getting ANY emails regarding auction items, but I havent really played with it yet.

I will look at the $1 minimum. I am not sure where the code for that is, but your observation that it was the minimum before I started playing will help me track it down (thanks!).

I am not sure when I will get a chance to look at this, but I will try.

(I also noticed that the expire HOUR is stored in a different DB field than the time (which seems a little odd) so I want to poke around with that too. )



AHB

[AndyII]

After receiving the winning bid email, I went and "paid" for the auction, I then received the order confirmation, so I would say that the emails seem to work, Yes the time difference (2 hours) from when the action ended and when I received the notice is strange

[AndyII]

bramnick, kind Sir;
a question, will your mod work with zen 1.3.7?
Im looking now at the code trying to see where the control is for the minimum starting bid.
I did another test auction, put '0' as the starting price, but its still looking for that minimum of $1.00 plus to be able to bid, even tried $1.00 and said "Bid Too Low" but as was with the other tests $1.01 was accepted.
Sir, if you can figure this out, I would be indebted to you

[bramnick]

I dont have 1.3.7 (and dont really want to dig it up) so I dont really have any way to determine if it will work.

I did find the $1 minimum problem. I am working on some other stuff so I am not ready to publish a new package, but the code fix is easy if you want to just edit the file....

BACKUP BACKUP!!!!



../includes/modules/pages/product_auction_info/header_php.php

Replace this line (line #30)
$auction_current_bid = ($auction_current_bid >= 1) ? $auction_current_bid : 1;


with this:
$auction_current_bid = ($auction_current_bid >= 0) ? $auction_current_bid : 0.01;

notice the "0" and the penny - The logic says "IF the current auction bid is greater than or equal to 0 (which is actually silly, but anyway), then return the current bid. Otherwise, return a penny. This sets the minimum price of any bid (including a raise) to 1 cent. you can change it to ten cents if you want (replace 0.01 with 0.10).


That will fix the $1 problem.

The emails do indeed seem to work on my machine. I do get outbid notices. I think that the YOU WIN notice will only appear if someone views the auction page after the closing time. (hence the cron job comment earlier).

I think that an initial bid email is never sent out. I will look into that (only winners, losers and outbids). I am also working on logging the emails which isnt happening even though there is a DB table for it.

Anyway... as time allows.....


Cheers!
AHB

[bramnick]

Upon further reflection (like 10 seconds worth) since there are only 2 files in the auction ZIP file that collide with the shipped ZEN versions, if you compare those 2 files line by line (or better - use a tool like WINDIFF to spot the changes), if the changes are ALL related to the auction code (which is in a block) then the auction code should drop on top OK. If not, you need to move the 1.3.8a auction related code into the same spot in the 1.3.7 code.

That is the best I can do to help... sorry...

AHB

[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.