Auctions - Amount going to Paypal

[machineone]

Hi,

I appear to have a problem with the winning auction amounts that are passed to Paypal.

In the buy.php I see the following code

Content visible to verified customers only.

This appears to mean the reserve price is always passed coz the Paypal form has the following inputs

Content visible to verified customers only.

As you can see the $adamount variable is used and buy.php supplies this with the reserve price.

Also I was expecting to see a pay now button/link. Do auction winners use the 'buy it now' link (note I've replaced this link with an image)

Finally I switched the Paypal form away from {$Globals['paypalcur']} and I use value="{$Globals['currency']}, so I can use the auction currency code, not the system currency.

Thanks,
Steve

[machineone]

Should add, I would expect the buy it now button to disappear after an auction has completed.

Content visible to verified customers only.

There's no logic managing the buy it now other than the status code.

[Chuck S]

When an ad is bought the status changes so there is logic in what you post above.

Buy it Now is a button that allows the poster to allow people to buy it now and stop his auction by using a reserve price. Therefore there is no bug here the price is correct and the poster allows buy it now as he enabled it on upload of his ad.

[machineone]

OK, I understand.

I've built my own logic around the 'buy it now' to remove it if the auction end date is met and if for some lucky reason the bidding price goes past it (you never know! )

What about a Pay Now link/button, does one exist? I can't seem to find one in the templates. I want successful auction winners to go to Paypal with their successful bid amounts etc. Do I have to build this functionality out myself?

Thanks,
Steve

[Chuck S]

Payment is only built into the application for payment of ads to you and buy it now

Any auctions or classifieds in the system ended normally payment is handled between the buyer and seller

[machineone]

OK. I'll attempt to build this out myself.

Could you show or point me to some rock solid code that compares the logged in user to the max user bid?

[machineone]

Also the reserve price is stored with no decimal places while maxbid and price have 2 decimal places

[Chuck S]

I am not sure what your trying to code but our support technicians do not support or discuss code modifications. There are several files that us payment in different ways and since you are trying to do something the script does not do you would no doubt need to define your own variables and compare with existing values

[machineone]

OK, so there no standard way to authenticate?

Also just noticed a user can input a lower reserve price than an ad opening price. Does that make sense?

[Chuck S]

The user places a reserve price he wishes there are no restrictions

What I am saying is whatever logic you use all depends on what your trying to code. There are dozens of files in our application each coded for specific things so this is the info I was passing along. You need to code whatever you wish and since this is a support site we do not support code alterations. You are free to alter files as you wish and discuss this outside support in the MOD CORNER if you wish.