Auction Product Type

Yes - all the pages are 1300 for the Buy Now button - took a second to realize what you were talking about there... chuckle

One other quick note: I'll leave it live on the site if you wanted to see it in action. the amounts are still the same - the products_price is $42 - as you'll soon see. ack

Thanks.

ps - I don't doubt that it works fine on your system - but you've also modded your php. The php close error in the vanilla main module at line 129 shows that - I'm just trying to find what var didn't get updated in the latest version.

Ok - I'm off to bed... I can't fous on the screen anymore, but I did find one slight difference between your code and mine (from page observations)

My form:

yours doesn't have that... I'm just grasping at straws here - but the shopping cart does have a check for mod=auction (which comes after the upload) and I have no clue where this upload thingy is set...

Maybe ?!?

Thanks.

Hi Dave,

That worked perfect, thank you!

Curt

davewest:

Found that one the other day... I've been reworking the code, as I do, I find things I missed or didn't write that needed worked on...
in includes\modules\pages\product_auction_info\jscript_main.php

change the first script as below or just the width and height as needed.

function popupWindow(url) {
window.open(url,'popupWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=450,height=320,screenX=150,screenY=150,top=150,left=150')
}

Dave -

If someone does a Buy it Now, the auction should do the following:

The countdown clock should end and display "This Auction Has Ended"

and instead of it saying "0 Units in Stock" it should put the graphic "Sold Out" or a new graphic "Sold"

Curt

BTW - I'm using version 1.0 and not 1.0a as each time I installed it the page would always come up blank.

I'll wait for some other corrections and try again with rev 1.1 or whatever the next rev is and see if the upgrade works.

Thanks Dave!

Curt

legacy2009:

BTW - I'm using version 1.0 and not 1.0a as each time I installed it the page would always come up blank.

Curt

That's a missing ?> on line 129...

Where can I get version 1.0 ??!??

legacy2009:

If someone does a Buy it Now, the auction should do the following:

The countdown clock should end and display "This Auction Has Ended"

and instead of it saying "0 Units in Stock" it should put the graphic "Sold Out" or a new graphic "Sold"

I do need to look at this more.... you are basically on hold waiting for the customer to complete the checkout process. If they do, then the product is disabled. The product going to 0 is normal cart actions. It be nice to place the auction on hold rather then to end it just in case the customer never finishes buying the product. I should be able to set a function in the class to check for stock, time, and product status. Something else to look at then....

Fez-o Joe:

yours doesn't have that... I'm just grasping at straws here - but the shopping cart does have a check for mod=auction (which comes after the upload) and I have no clue where this upload thingy is set...
Uploads alerts, bids to low and such... your right, my code is not even close to yours... I started working on the code with version 1.0 and 1.0a if your using something before that I can guess at it, but I wont be able to do much with the code... My site is beyond version 1.0a right now so looking there wont help you much. I've spent the last four weeks adding 5 new pages, rewriting three pages of logic, deleting some pages I no longer need. I think the upload just went live in the addon section of this site.

davewest:

Uploads alerts, bids to low and such... your right, my code is not even close to yours... I started working on the code with version 1.0 and 1.0a if your using something before that I can guess at it, but I wont be able to do much with the code... My site is beyond version 1.0a right now so looking there wont help you much.

Then we're all doomed ! :shocking: I downloaded the add-on this week!!! Maybe an admin posted the wrong set?!? who can we check with? is version 1.0 still out there?

Ok - thanks again for your help. Time to revert the site. Oh Boy! :censored:

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!

I would agree - 1.0a should be removed and superceded with Dave's next rev once he releases it.

Curt

Fez-o Joe:

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.

Apache/2.0.59 (Win32)
PHP/ 5.2.3
MySQL 5.0.37

Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP/ 5.2.8
MySQL 5.1.30

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....

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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!

Blackthorne:

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.

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/shop_v139_test/index.php?main_page=product_auction_info&cPath=1&products_id=1

Can someone tell me what I might have done wrong?

Thanks.

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

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.