Auction Product Type

Is anybody else having problems with the sideboxes on the right side doubling up when viewing the auction product while logged in as a customer? This happens in IE8 and not firefox.

However, When not logged in as a customer page layout looks fine in both IE8 and Firefox.

Depending on if you are logged in or not and if the item has bids or not I get different validation errors viewing the Auction product.

For example.

Not logged in as a customer looks fine in both browsers but gets a validation error wether or not items have or do not have bids.

line 207 column 1 - Warning: missing </div>

Logged in as a customer looks bad in IE8 causing the sideboxes to bunch up into two rows on the right side.

Bids or no bids while logged in as a customer.

line 265 column 5 - Warning: missing </form>

and

line 207 column 1 - Warning: missing </div>

I'm sure it's in the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\templates\tpl_product_auction_info_display.php

Can someone please look into this I can't quite track it down. I'm trying but no luck.

Thanks

gmrm:

Don't know if this is the right place to post this but if anyone would like to help me set up this mod (layout problems) i will kindly pay for your services

I'll help you if I can. No need to pay anyone here :smile:

P.M me if you need to.

davewest,

I see you updated which file you had available for download at your website from 1.2a to 1.2b.

Though both of our solutions will keep max bids at bay they are radically different in approach. Because of this I plan on submitting my modified version of the auction product type to zen-cart as an alternative to the original.

I present no disrespect to you or your works only a new view to an existing add on.

Thanks for your efforts. Without people making changes zen-cart wouldn't have evolved to what it is today.

Cheers

beasleybub:

Is anybody else having problems with the sideboxes on the right side doubling up when viewing the auction product while logged in as a customer? This happens in IE8 and not firefox.

I've reworked the template altogether and continue to make changes. Because of these changes I plan on submitting the auction product type I'm working on as an alternative to the original.

Hello everyone

I am a new user of Zen Cart and love it. I downloaded the Auction Product Type module, got it installed and running. I have 1 problem though. My products all have attributes and when I convert them to auction type product they loose all their attributes, or so it seems. The customer is unable to view the attributes selection when purchasing the item. It just displays the normal auction window, count down timer, buy now, minimum bid increase, all those things but no attributes. How can I get the attributes back?

When I go to the attributes manager, the product is still setup with all the attributes, it just does not want to display them.

Thanks in advance for any advice or information.

ruaan,

The auction product type is not set up to allow attributes. Attributes could potentially change the items price thus defeating the purpose of bidding for an item. If you have attributes for an item you have up for auction that don't require a price change you could just put it into your description and request the winning bidder to request the attribute they wanted during checkout.

It would be interesting to add an attributes feature to the auction product type so as long as it did not change the price of the item.

On another note not related to this post:
I have noticed as well that winning bid emails aren't being sent out. Outbid emails are but not winning loosing emails.

I like this module, but I have one question: let's say the bid increment is 1,00 euro, and I place my maximum bid, which is 10,00 euro higher then the current bid, does the module add 1,00 euro to the current bid or 10,00 euro ?

I to am looking for some code which will allow a max bid to be entered, eBay style.

Where bidders can set their max bid and the new bid for that buyer will simply be the current bid + the min bid increase.

Any suggestions or help?

Great code by the way!!

Cheers

Dan

The authors site doesn't have the latest version available. 1.2b Does anyone have it, they could share?

Does anyone know if this mod has any problem working with downloadable products?

I am currently using: v1.3.9c of Zen Cart and have been testing the mod with help from my web host manager. We now can tell that the cron job is firing, but we get the error:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class productAuction in /home/villscom/public_html/includes/classes/class.productauction.php on line 17

Can anyone give me a clue how to fix. Everything else seem to work well and I really want this to work to help our sales and general sales interest.

beasleybub:

I'll try to work on this if you don't get around to it :)

Thanks
After applying the modification, it will not take any bids on the auction items. It returns eith "Too Low" or "Too High" Can you point me in a direction to look for the code that is limiting bids?

Jim.

jimdi99:

After applying the modification, it will not take any bids on the auction items. It returns eith "Too Low" or "Too High" Can you point me in a direction to look for the code that is limiting bids?

Jim.
Cancel this question - I found the problem -It's me not checking to be sure all the parts were FTP'd correctly.
Jim.

Does anyone have the latest download of this mod?? Where can i get it?

Hi

I'm having a bit of trouble with the Auction Product type add-on -- in particular, the divs on the product display.

What's happening is that there seems to be a missing </div>, resulting in the product page being thrown off when the error for a bid that's not high enough shows.

I already fixed one missing div problem doing the same thing on the main display of the product, but I can't locate the div this time.

A little hard to explain, so I've included some screenshots below.

http://www.natureswonderland.com.au/images/auction1.jpg -- This shows the shop with the correct layout (ignore the non-loading images)

http://www.natureswonderland.com.au/images/auction2.jpg -- This shows the shop when the missing div comes in. As you can see, one of the divs isn't closed and everything is 10 times bigger than it should be. Still a little hard to see, but I'm hoping you get the gist.

So, if anyone has any idea where I can find that missing </div> it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Tija

Something appears to have not copied across properly as I am getting titles displayed as "BOX_INFORMATION_AUCTION" in the Information sidebox, "BOX_HEADING_AUCTION" as the auction box heading, and lots more.
Any guidance as to what file hasn't copied across properly or where to set up the proper titles for the titles.
See site http://www.artezan.com.au

Thanks for your help.

artezan:

Something appears to have not copied across properly as I am getting titles displayed as "BOX_INFORMATION_AUCTION" in the Information sidebox, "BOX_HEADING_AUCTION" as the auction box heading, and lots more.
Any guidance as to what file hasn't copied across properly or where to set up the proper titles for the titles.
See site http://www.artezan.com.au

Thanks for your help.
Just downloaded a new copy and reinstalled all the files and it's fixed, thanks.

Not having a lot of luck in fixing my problem... Obviously, it will be easier if you can see exactly what is happening...
http://www.natureswonderland.com.au/images/auction1.htm -- This is what the store looks like when you view the Auction product.

http://www.natureswonderland.com.au/images/auction2.htm -- This is what it ends up as after you place a bid that is too low.

Anyone have any suggestions?

• Tija

ZC version 1.3.9, Auction Product Type 1.2b

An attempt to use the cron job did not succeed, despite the cache showing apparent success with the use of wget. So I set the use cron values to 0 in Auction Manager and checked the config file to make sure it was set 0 there also.

I do get outbid emails instantly, but no winner or loser emails are sent out. Sendmail -f works fine for everything else in Zencart.

Where are the specific files that trigger the emails being sent? Are they perhaps using the wrong email protocol, or do they use Zencart's default?

I understand that in the absence of a cron job, emails are triggered by a page load, which I have done after the close of the auctions.

Also, is there any way to get auctions to end on the minute rather than on the hour?

Help here would be awesome so I can just get winner and loser emails successfully sending. Payment is possible for someone who can come in and set up the cron job properly to optimize the site.

I should add that in Auctions Manager, it shows the ended auctions as not having ended, and the columns are weirdly offset in Auctions Manager. Screenshot included.

It's also not showing the pay now button to the highest bidder when that account is logged in.