Auction Product Type

morning :)

I am still having problems with the emails not going out. I am sure this is because I installed this new awesome auction mod over the old doesnt work so well one.

Is there a file that I can look in to compare to the new awesome auction mod that does work on my wholesale site to the one that the email doesnt work on in my retail site?

The rest is lovely as it is, but i cannot start auctions until i get that email issue worked out?

Thanks!!

mooncavecrystals:

morning :)

I am still having problems with the emails not going out. I am sure this is because I installed this new awesome auction mod over the old doesnt work so well one.

Is there a file that I can look in to compare to the new awesome auction mod that does work on my wholesale site to the one that the email doesnt work on in my retail site?

The rest is lovely as it is, but i cannot start auctions until i get that email issue worked out?

Thanks!!

This will depend on what else you did to your code base. If this is the ONLY mod you loaded, then the process is doable. If not, you are in for some work.

Install a fresh copy of zencart at 1.3.? (I think you are running 1.3.7) into a test directory somewhere. Then zip up the tree and download it to your desktop. No need to customize it.

Then zip up your non-email sending tree and download that

Then go get a copy of windiff.exe (i am assuming you are running windows) and tell it to compare directories and point it at the 2 directories...

You can tell it to filter out the identical files. What's left is what is different.

Mind you, my version of the mod is based on 1.3.8a BUT there are only 2 files that I touched that are modifications to the base code... application_top.php and shoppingcart.php (The base versions of those files are different so you CANT just drop one on top of the other and assume it will work.)

Then it is just work :smile:

Good luck!

AHB

ok, heres a strange question for ya :) When i set the time for auction to expire...say 11am my time.....it does not actually expire until one hour later and then the email saying you have won the auction comes one hour after that.

Anyway I can fix??

Thanks! the more I work with this mod the more I love it :)
B....you da man!! :clap:

mooncavecrystals:

ok, heres a strange question for ya :) When i set the time for auction to expire...say 11am my time.....it does not actually expire until one hour later and then the email saying you have won the auction comes one hour after that.

Anyway I can fix??

Thanks! the more I work with this mod the more I love it :)
B....you da man!! :clap:

Yup, that is a bug that is fixed in the as yet unpublished v.98. There is a "<" that should be a "<="

../PATH TO YOUR STORE/includes/classes/class.productauction.php

Line 27

Change
WHERE auction_closed = 'N' AND CURDATE() > bid_expire_date or (bid_expire_hour < " . date('H') . " and bid_expire_date = CURDATE() and auction_closed = 'N')";

TO:
WHERE auction_closed = 'N' AND (CURDATE() > bid_expire_date) or (bid_expire_hour <= " . date('H') . " and bid_expire_date = CURDATE() and auction_closed = 'N')";

Cheers!
AHB

Afternoon :)
ok, i added the = but I still have to add an hour.....anyway, its no biggy.

Two questions :) when do you think the new version will be available for download?

and

I found that i have TWO class.productauction.php files....
one is class.productAuction.php and the other is class.productauction.php
Am I supposed to have both??? or can I delete one? weird.....has to be something I did with the old mod and the new.....who knows? LOL

mooncavecrystals:

I found that i have TWO class.productauction.php files....
one is class.productAuction.php and the other is class.productauction.php
Am I supposed to have both??? or can I delete one? weird.....has to be something I did with the old mod and the new.....who knows? LOL

I know what that is... There is a long story involved, but you can safely delete the class.productAuction.php file. It is no longer used

Arnold

I have uploaded V.98 of the auction mod. Hopefully it will clear customs soon.

PLEASE PLEASE read the install.txt file. There are DB changes and an optional cron job that you need to understand.

There are behavior changes. I like them, but you might not.

As always backup everything including the DB before playing with this. If you or any member of your team are caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of you action... Good luck Jim! :smartalec:

AHB

Hi,

first of all.. thanks! I have been waiting for some updates last year unti i gave up. only today i found out that there is an update to the mod!

However, I've the old version 0.95 installed on my zencart 1.37 verson, which I still not intend to upgrade to v1.38 yet. worried.. i dunno how to upgrade. sigh..

but now my question is, if this v.98 (strange, still see v0.97 at the download section) can be used at zencart 1.37 version? how should i go about doing it? do i have to uninstall the old v.95 to install this new one? if yes, how to uninstall it?

finally, anyone try it with zencart 1.37?

i saw that the minimum bid increment has been set to 0.01, but in fact I think this should be changeable at the store owner level right? if we want a different minimum bid increment, how can I change that over at my end?

so many questions in my head that i dunno where to start yet.. sorry..

thanks,
nat

nataliajoe:

Hi,

first of all.. thanks! I have been waiting for some updates last year unti i gave up. only today i found out that there is an update to the mod!

However, I've the old version 0.95 installed on my zencart 1.37 verson, which I still not intend to upgrade to v1.38 yet. worried.. i dunno how to upgrade. sigh..

but now my question is, if this v.98 (strange, still see v0.97 at the download section) can be used at zencart 1.37 version? how should i go about doing it? do i have to uninstall the old v.95 to install this new one? if yes, how to uninstall it?

finally, anyone try it with zencart 1.37?

i saw that the minimum bid increment has been set to 0.01, but in fact I think this should be changeable at the store owner level right? if we want a different minimum bid increment, how can I change that over at my end?

so many questions in my head that i dunno where to start yet.. sorry..

thanks,
nat

I think there are others that have tried my 0.97 (and a beta of 0.98) version on 1.3.7. There are only 2 files that overlay the base ZC code. They are listed in the install.txt file. Of you carefully move the auction related lines from my version of those modules to the 1.3.7 versions, AND overlay all the 0.95 version files with 0.98 AND do the update SQL it SHOULD work.

YOU CANNOT JUST DROP MY VERSIONS OF THOSE 2 FILES ON TOP OF 1.3.7 VERSIONS...

I have not tested this, but others in the forum who have might jump in.

Clearly you dont want to play with this on a production system....

The 0.01 increment is the MINIMUM. The auction item creation page allows you to set ANY increment you want, item by item.

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.

velvetangels:

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

bramnick:

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.

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

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

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:

TO:

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

I have ran into the strangest glitch:frusty:. 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.... :smile: )
The site is https://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

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!!

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 :P) So email will have to do.

AHB

Wlarnett:

I have ran into the strangest glitch:frusty:. 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.... :smile: )
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

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

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

gr wilbroek