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Architecture for an Auction Style Site

Where would be a good place to find information on the underlying architecture for auction style sites? Preferably in ASP.Net. ...

free auction software for ASP.NET site integration

Looking for advice on free auction software for ASP.NET website. Also, any insight on this subject is very welcome. ...

How to do PayPal/Google Checkout in an Auction style web application?

I'm curious if there is a way to process/connect buyers and sellers on my site without the site having to charge the buyer and credit the seller. In other words, I don't want to touch the money, but I do want to integrate the process as much as possible on my site. I guess what I'm asking is how do auction sites manage the transactions...

Auction applications?

I've been tasked to help organize a web component to an art auction being held to benefit a family in need of assistance to overcome a sudden and tragic onslaught of medical bills. I'm capable in Rails and with relatively complex configurations of Drupal, so long as it doesn't require custom module development. Can anyone offer sugges...

PHP - Auction Script

Hi, I need to auction an item among a small group online, please could anyone point me to any PHP class or any open source script. Thanks, Kaartz ...

Looking for good, customizable auction software that will integrate with existing systems

As the title said, I'm looking for auction software that will allow me to customize the look & feel of the front end, while integrating the back end with an existing application, populating the listings automatically. Thoughts? One of my contractors is pushing iLance, but we have some concerns about the integration. ...

How can I have a function perform after a Datetime in my DB is met?

I'm creating an auction site where users can bid on items. I want to create a script that sends an email to the winner of an auction item once the datetime in the end_auction column has been reached. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, since PHP only runs when the page is loaded and then stops. Also, I want it to send an email to ...

Questions on Auction Database Schema

I was looking at the following db model and I had some questions on it. I'm sure it's a good design as the guy behind it seems to be reasonably well qualified, although some things don't make sense: Why's he seperated out bidders and sellers? I thought you'd have users, and users can place bids and sell items. You'd have a bids table w...

Platform/API for applications (games) to do trading and auctions between players/users.

Are there any products/services that let games developers provide real-time trading and/or auction services to their users/players. E.g. Let the developer define what assets can be traded and the end-user application interacts with the service. I'm looking for anything from platforms as complex as real-life trading systems through to a...

ASP.net auction expiration mechanism

How to realize auction expiration? Make it inactive after 1-3-5 days? Something like eBay? Thank you! I am using asp.net c# Any links for information would be appreciated, I have "active" boolean field in my auction table ...

ASP .NET MVC 2.0 or WebFoms to develope a Auction site like Ebay?

Hello ... I´d like to know what is the best option to develope a Auction site like Ebay with ASP .NET 4.0: MVC 2.0 WebForms I only worked with WebForms, but I have time to learn MVC if is the best option... What you think? Thanks ...

PHP Auction Expiry Tracking

What is the best way to send e-mails or perform functions on a small, non-real money auction script? This script is a learning exercise for me and I was wondering what the best way would be to process actions when the auction has expired. A cron job every minute seems - to me - a method which can easily be surpassed. ...

AucTeX/emacs problem with '$' character.

AucTeX on emacs is pretty amazing tool, but when I write one single '$', all the coloring is broken. Normally one '$' is accompanied by another '$' to express math equations, but for source listing single '$' is frequently used. \begin{Verbatim} (let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously ... (re-search-forward "^$" nil 'move) <-- ...

python package for distributed auction simulation

Hi, Does anyone know of a package that allows for a distributed agent-based double auction simulation? I've looked at SimPy, but that's a discrete-event simulator and difficult to get working in a distributed fashion. regs, Vivek ...

Opensource Auction App in Java (or in Ofbiz)

Hi folks, I need to know open source auction app in java (or even based on ofbiz). BTW, I find this ofbiz-based one (http://www.kenfuse.com/project/ofbizauction) but didn't know how to reach the source code! I appreciate your help Thanks. ...

Auction website - Auction ends with winning bidder goes into ended in account rather than sold

Hi, I have an auction website www.partsupplyonline.com. When an item is bid on and reaches the reserve, it should go into "won" or "sold" in the users account. Instead, it just goes into ended? I have a cron job set up, which closes the auction every 5 minutes, which is wget http://www.partsupplyonline.com/cron/cron1.php >/dev/null Pleas...