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Auction Factory Features list - version 1.0.0

Upgrade Informations - Please check each topic for each Release!
Here an example for Version 1.0.3


Installing and Configuring Auction Factory

Auction Factory CRON setup - FAQ

Bulk Uploading Auctions into your system

User's "HOW TO" Guide?
    * How to Create a New Auction?
    * How to BID or view BIDs?
    * How to Buy using BIN or BID?
    * How do I ask the seller a Question?
    * How to Rate Seller/Buyer?
    * Private Messages
    * How to Relist an Auction?
    * Changing an Auction

Glossary explaining BID, BIN, Proxy, etc.

bodojo Auction

Here is a small tutotial on how to add a New Auction Item:
http://www.bodojo.com/add_item_2.html

Q: In the description page of each auction item, there's a box for photos. There are two arrows in this box, even if there is only one photo (so no navigation). Can this be removed?

A. YES. This will imply only older versions since we added this also to our release.
Solution: add in bids.html.php at auctiondetails
after $auction->gallery=$gallery->getGallery();

        if(count($gallery->imagelist)==1)
    $auction->gallery=$gallery->getThumb(0,0);

Q: I want to put the 3 popular auction in an table like
auction_1 auction_2 auction_3.
(1 row 3 column)
Can you please explain in an example how to do this?

A: Please edit :

/modules/mod_bids/mod_bids.php

around line 116 begins the HTML output.

remove the Field header:

      <tr>
      <?php if ($display_image) { ?>
           <th>&nbsp;</th>
      <?php } ?>
         <th><?php echo bid_title;?></th>
         <th><?php echo bid_max_bid;?></th>
      </tr>


and add before the for loop a <tr> like this

<tr>
      <?php

      for($i=0;$i<count($rows);$i++){


then remove the tr on line 153 ( <tr class="<?php echo $alt_class;?>"> )

and move the /tr from line 176 out of the for loop (right before the /table line)

Here some tips for SSL usuage:

If YUI is used then download all the YUI dependencies and upload them on your server, so that gl_yui will include also the local sources, not the ones on yahoo.
If lytebox is used, it should be ok

Also edit startcounter.js like in the following thread:
http://www.thefactory.ro/joomla-forum/reverse-auction-factory/https-r-a-f-2916.0.html.html

The rest implies template validation, like images which are on other sites, displayed with http not https,
JS which are modifying the DOM, etc.

The images from the galeries are put with https, no need for htaccess.

This topic regards Auction Factory 1.6.7 holder who want to list multi option type of custom fields in the listing tasks.

In bids.php this concerns the methods listAuctions, listMyWonBids,
listMyAuctions,listMyWatchlist,listMyBids,listMySuggestions,showSearchResults.


The following snippet must be added in the above methods ( if does'nt exist allready! ) before the listing query is executed.

// => BLOCK FIX IN 1.6.7
   $JoinList = array();
   $SelectCols = array();
   
   $Fi = & FactoryFieldsFront::getInstance();
   $Fi->getCustomFieldsJoin($JoinList, $SelectCols, null, array("#__bid_users"=>"prof","#__bid_auctions"=>"a"));
   $fields_join = @implode($JoinList);
   if(count($SelectCols)>=1)
   $fields_cols = ", ".implode(",",$SelectCols);
//  <= BLOCK FIX IN 1.6.7

Add in the existing listing query (the query that fills $rows) $fields_cols and $fields_join:

So you should have from:
$query = "SELECT ....... FROM ...... LEFT JOIN  ....."

$query = "SELECT ....... $fields_cols FROM ...... $fields_join LEFT JOIN  ....."

NOTE: Before upgrading do a FULL backup of your website (including database).
Run also the Auction Factory backup option under the component backend (tools/backup and restore buttons) so you can restore your auctions onto the new version.

To upgrade from a minor version (where no DB changes) do this:
1. get new kit under: http://www.thefactory.ro/upgrade-table.html
2. unzip the new version.
3. FTP to your server
4. Overwrite the following folders on your server with the ones in the unzipped folder on your computer:
    a. /administrator/components/com_bids
    b. /components/com_bids
    c. /modules/mod_bids

To do a full upgrade do the following, first uninstall Auction Factory:
1. get new kit under: http://www.thefactory.ro/upgrade-table.html
2. Log into the back-end and navigate to the Extension Manager: Install/Uninstall
3. Click on the "components" tab, uninstall "Bids"
4. Click on "Modules", uninstall "mod_auctioncattree", "mod_auctionfulltree", and "mod_bids"
5. Click on "Plugins", uninstall "Search - Auctions", "Auction Factory Plugin", and "System - UDDEAuction"
6. Now you can do a clean install, navigate back to the "install" tab and upload the zip file to do a fresh install of Auction Factory. Attention, a backup is MANDATORY, since the clean install is erasing old data.

Additional information:
1. any template change should be saved separately
components/com_bids/templates/
2. if any modifications to the CSS files, dont forget to have a copy
3. settings file of the component is located under:
components/com_bids/options.php