Auction Product Type

[davewest]

OK - here's a red flag... version 1.0 works fine - the Buy Now works as it should. Something in the 1.0a logic breaks it - version 1.0a has some serious bugs - sorry Dave. Who do we write to tell them to pull 1.0a since I'm not the only one having problems?

If you know of some sort of software to check side-by-side code, let me know - I'll run through it and find it!

Once more I did a full clean install, add the patches and then installed 1.0a. I did miss the ?> at the end of line 129 and the popup window size..... haven't been able to find any other errors so far, waiting for a close on a couple of test auctions.

As for now... I don't see any reason to pull the current 1.0a. These are the current servers 1.0a is running on without any problems. Zen 1.3.8a with the security patch.
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Apache/2.0.59 (Win32)
PHP/ 5.2.3
MySQL 5.0.37
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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP/ 5.2.8
MySQL 5.1.30
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Keep in mind, without looking at your code, all I can do is check my code, run tests. If I can't reproduce the errors..... I can't figure out how to fix what you got....

[TSRCatalog]

Dave...
Hope all's been well. Quick question, how or where can I disable the automated sending of an email to registered buyers regarding "you recently made an offer..." email (when someone else bids subsequently)?

Peter

[davewest]

Dave...
Hope all's been well. Quick question, how or where can I disable the automated sending of an email to registered buyers regarding "you recently made an offer..." email (when someone else bids subsequently)?

Peter

This line "you recently made an offer..." is not part of the current auction code... currently, there is no switch for turning off the email system. Email is sent by class.productauction.php for close, won, and lost bids... header_php.php does the out bid emails..

[TSRCatalog]

Sorry, Dave. I should have been more specific. In haste I did not account for some customization of the e-mails.

The e-mail I am referring to is one the system generates whenever a buyer makes a bid that is "accepted" by the system. The system generates an email to all those who have previously bid on said item that another buyer has since made a bid. No different than the "lost auction" email that generates when the auction has closed.

I'll check the file of reference, but if you have any other suggestion, it will be quite helpful. At times the system is generating emails even to those who never bid on a particular item.

Peter

[davewest]

Sorry, Dave. I should have been more specific. In haste I did not account for some customization of the e-mails.

The e-mail I am referring to is one the system generates whenever a buyer makes a bid that is "accepted" by the system. The system generates an email to all those who have previously bid on said item that another buyer has since made a bid. No different than the "lost auction" email that generates when the auction has closed.

I'll check the file of reference, but if you have any other suggestion, it will be quite helpful. At times the system is generating emails even to those who never bid on a particular item.

Peter

In includes\modules\pages\product_auction_info\header_php.php should be line 172

if ($previous_bidders_email_address != "") {

begins the code for building the out bid email only if there was a previous bid.

For win, lost, and auction over emails, includes\classes\class.productauction.php completes them as will, records the auction close in the database. so block only line 34

productAuction::sendClosedEmail($auction_info);

Of coarse, killing the emails basically kills the idea of a auction. If your doing it for a 'make an Offer' system, you can do it without killing the auction.

[Blackthorne]

OK..I went through as much of the thread as I could, but I am going cross eyed.

I am having issues with this module.

I THINK I am following the instructions right, but my real problem is I can't find anything that tells me how to actually USE the module, so I don't know if something is missing or broken, or if I am just not using the feature properly.


Is there a manual text file or something that shows how to actually use the mod? That way I can verify if its installed right and I am just doing it wrong, or if my install is actually broken.

For reference, I have copied up all the files. I have run the "zen_auctions_update_10a.sql" patch (browse to file and upload).

I see "Auction Manager" under Extras. I have manually created a Category call "Live Auctions", but I don't see any option for an auction "Product Type", which is what I suspect I am suposed to see.

Cheers and Thanks in Advance!

[davewest]

I see "Auction Manager" under Extras. I have manually created a Category call "Live Auctions", but I don't see any option for an auction "Product Type", which is what I suspect I am suposed to see.

The past instructions was lacking... I've created an advance instruction and did some more updates... was about to upload when 1.3.9 came out. I'm in the process of testing Auction Product Type against 1.3.9 and figure while I'm at it, php5.3.2 as well..

So far, about another week or so and I should have it ready to go.

If you are creating a new product, then it's basically the same as any other product that's not a product-general Type.... In the category you are about to create a product in, look to the bottom, you'll see a drop-down menu box with 'Product - General' in it, click the down arrow and pick 'Product - Auction' from the list. Then click the create new product button. Auction is just one of many product types you can create in ZenCart.

[mzimmers]

I tried installing this add-on in my test directory. Once I change a product to type auction, the product page is missing most of its content:

http://www.cinderellaantiques.com/sh...&products_id=1

Can someone tell me what I might have done wrong?

Thanks.

[sleepyannie]

i have the same problem here. Once i have added the product under product type auctions, the information of the product is gone.

[mzimmers]

Hi, Annie –

I don't know whether this is your problem or not, but I forgot that my test shop uses a different template than my production shop. I loaded lots of the auction files into the wrong template structure. I'm in the process of sorting that out now.