By mrigess on

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if its a good choice to take drupal 7 for developing Auction based website. I am in a very strict deadline and would get just 35 working days for it. I am not provided any requirement documentation. That's a headache; but they have provided me an existing auction site of their own, which needs to be converted to well form. Previous freelancer was a little nervy one and had spoiled it big time.

I thought rather than entangling myself to old lame fully procedure oriented code there, i would like to stick to drupal 7 (i know drupal 7 also features some percentage of procedure oriented code, but its in harmony). Although I am not much interactive with drupal; ast time I used drupal to build a website using drupal 2.

I heard Ubercart also has the auction module but found its features lessened, so I guess I need to develop a module on my own. Please shed some light, I promise to add the new auction module for test to drupal community if I succeed.

Please suggest.

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I'm not sure if I could remake eBay in 35 days myself, but it would be possible to build an auction/bid functionality in Drupal if you know what you are doing. If there's already an existing solution, do you think it would be better to spend time securing the code or throwing it out?

One quick way to get this started that I thought up of just now (i.e. not too well thought out)...

Make an auction node type and add comments or "bids" to it. The comments should have a bid field, and possibly some custom element validation or maybe a rule to restrict bidding. A user then could "bid" or comment on a node, but the only thing they would be allowed to "comment" is a bid/price field (no body, title, etc...). Then on cron or something, get the last comment, and make them the winner, close that particular auction node to comments, etc...

This doesn't enter any payment / order handling.

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mrigess commented

Hi mathhew,

Thanks for that quickie. And I guess its a good idea to utilize the node system, create custom content type auction , utilize commenting system to place the bids. I will look in this suggestion and will let you know the progress. Besides, I am worst as new for drupal; before this I was in kohana and CI. This shift to drupal was necessary for me as I found drupal a handy tool for various development pattern it supports. And most interesting thing I (lazy bone) found is the open community here who served so many interesting modules. :)

But I must say that simpletest thing is onto my nerves, it hasn't succeeded yet in my test-case. All I was doing was testing a module I developed for sake of learning. It wasn't even 200 lines aggregating all the codes, and i could not see the result as the PHP script goes MET.

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duckzland commented

at this moment it is better off to use drupal 6 + ubercart to build such site, some of the ubercart supporting module is not ported to D7 yet. Unless you want to spare time converting the modules yourself.

As for the auction site, even with Drupal 6 you will need to do plenty of custom coding and custom module to glue everything together.

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mrigess commented

Hi jason,

Thanks for the responce so sooner. Well it would be a failsafe measure for me to go drupal6+ubercart and be merry. I checked these links:

But there are issues and besides even if I solved it, the feature provided by the auction module is different that what i require. I am dealing with the project that holds penny auction something different that provided there. Besides I need to add newer concepts like autobid, meltdown bids, premium bids.. (........phew this list won't end........). It would be hard for me but I will try developing my own; and I guess that I should stick to D7 as it has most of the important modules I might require integrated to itself now; in D6 we require to add them ourselves with some hacks.

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duckzland commented

well, as long as you dont mind fixing some of the -dev or alpha modules (yes even views is not stable yet) and is very patience in changing your custom code if in the end X module changes its API when going stable...... it is the best bet to develop it using D7 for long term sake :)

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prokopton commented

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se7en76 commented

Subscribing.
Why not consider making a brand new commerce ad hoc tiers contrib module to add to http://www.drupalcommerce.org/contrib ?

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claesmelander commented

Hi,

I am looking into using the drupal platform for a similar purpose as you described here. Although mine will be a reversed auction site.

What did you end up doing? and how did it go?

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summit commented

Hi,
http://drupal.org/project/commerce_auction ?

greetings, Martijn

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Jewell commented

I am used to use if based on MLM site it's very good CMS