HELP!! any ideas on this?

[rolo962]

Hello All

I was wondering if this cart can do timed sales on specific items, (example; sale ends in 3 days)

just like an auction site which times out on a product but, without the bidding, can this be written in? just curious

Thanks for any help

[freddy]

One Idea:

 

It can be done, I think you need to do some serious PHP and MySQL programming. Here's one way of doing it:

 

1) Add an additional field to the products (there is a contrib "Product Extra Fields" that may help here), this field holds the "expiration date" for the product

2) Create a script that disables (set products_status to 0) any product whose "expiration date" is today

3) Make that script to run automatically every morning at 00:01 am (If using Linux put it in the cron, if you don't have access to the cron ask for assistance from your system administrator)

 

If you are just referring to a "Special Offer" that runs for some days, oscommerce has this already implemented.

 

I'm sure there are many other ways of doing the same thing.

 

Regards,

Freddy