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Message started by annetappe on 12/31/05 at 04:27:38

Title: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 12/31/05 at 04:27:38

I have an application where only the Admin will be entering auction items and they will all close at a certain future Day/Time.

Could someone point me to the section of the code where I could set the 'default date ie April 15, 2006' and not have to enter it each time I enter an auction item?

Thank you.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by Dieter Werner on 01/02/06 at 20:44:42

Check out the code of 'sub proc_test'
I'm sure you will find some lines of inspiration. 8-)

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 01/02/06 at 22:20:03

Thanks - I will do this.

As you can tell I do not know Perl but have learned enough to be dangerous and I DO appreciate being 'pointed' to area instead of just answers to questions or solutions up front. I feel you will be available if I really get stumped.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 01/03/06 at 04:12:26

I studied hard the section you referred me to along with how you were converting from days to Month/Day but I still can not see how to (without disrupting the original code much) simply just be able to enter a Default Future Closing Date by Month/Day instead of Days Only.

Maybe if I explained the purpose again it would help.....

[] I would like to have an Auction Event once or twice a year (as a fund raiser for non-profit school) and be able to enter the items and have them ALL end on a certain future date and time. I can do this now with your features but I would have to enter the 'number of days' which will be different each day I enter a new auction item.

[] I was hoping there would be some simple way to just manually set the 'certain future closing date as [Month/Day/Year?] & closing time as [hh/mm/ss]' as variables within the config file and the remainder of the script would run as normal.

It is probably in front of my eyes and I am not seeing it.

Any help would be appreciated. Maybe I am the only one seeing how to use your script in this manner and not worth the time.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by Dieter Werner on 01/03/06 at 13:50:56

Search eAuction.pl for 'sub proc_new'
Search 'sub proc_new' for
Code:

$close_time = get_the_time(
$form{'DAYS'},
$form{'HOUR'},
$form{'MIN'},
$form{'SEC'}
); # Servertime

Replace the found function with
Code:

#$close_time = get_the_time(
# $form{'DAYS'},
# $form{'HOUR'},
# $form{'MIN'},
# $form{'SEC'}
#); # Servertime

use Time::Local;

my $month = 2;
my $mday = 14;
my $year = 2006;

my $hour = 22;
my $min = 0;
my $sec = 0;

$close_time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, ($month - 1), $year);

The code will set the constant close_time:
14/02/2006 22:00:00

I hope it helps ... :)

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 01/03/06 at 15:43:55

Thank you again.
I will try this evening.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by Dieter Werner on 01/03/06 at 17:13:32

annetappe wrote:

I will try this evening.

Feel free to come back to the topic if you should run in any trouble.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 01/03/06 at 21:18:25

Executed ok but small error:

[Modified section]==========begin=== 2/10/06, 17:00:00
#modfied below per DW to allow default close date and time
#$close_time = get_the_time(
# $form{'DAYS'},
# $form{'HOUR'},
# $form{'MIN'},
# $form{'SEC'}
#); # Servertime

use Time::Local;

my $month = 2;
my $mday = 10;
my $year = 2006;

my $hour = 17;
my $min = 0;
my $sec = 0;

$close_time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, ($month - 1), $year);
#modified above per DW to allow default close date and time
[Modified section]==========end===

*When I posted New Item I did not enter anything at start/close date. When posted, the 'closing time' is 16:00, not 17:00.

*No problem to 'adjust' closing time in script if that would be simple solution.

*I modified the maximum days that I could pre-post to 60 days per your previous posts and it was showing prior to this Mod but now is zero after Mod.

I had set you up a login that I will send PM if you would like to try posted new item. You can not hurt anything on this site so feel free to try it.

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by Dieter Werner on 01/04/06 at 10:02:47

In order to adjust the time ...
change this

Code:

$close_time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, ($month - 1), $year);

into this

Code:

$close_time = timelocal($sec, $min, ($hour + 1), $mday, ($month - 1), $year);

Title: Re: Default Ending Date
Post by annetappe on 01/04/06 at 16:11:01

Modified - works perfect.

Thanks