PHPAuction


PHPAuction provides the most complete suite of applications and services for building auction web sites. PHPAuction packages can be customized to add new features or modifying the existing ones. This customization service is provided by PHPAuction Certified Developers.


Few PHPauction based websites that X-Wire has customized in last three months are as follows:


1. AutoGraph Store, Anthony Nurse, USA

Objective: Autographstore.com is the ultimate destination for authentic celebrity autographed collectibles and signed memorabilia. Autographstore.com is one of the most recognized names in the collectibles and autographed memorabilia industry.


Celebrity autographed collectibles and signed memorabilia are auctioned on the website using a PHP/MySQL based application that was customized by X-Wire.


X-Wire has provided the following modules for AutoGraphStore.com:


Invoice System
X-Wire designed and developed a custom Invoicing system that allows all high bidders' items to be combined together and includes an area where they can add and adjust the shipping costs based on domestic and international shipping fees, and combines all winnings from customers. This invoicing system was done just like the eBay invoicing system and was linked up with Pay Pal payment gateway.

The invoice system was semi-automatic, meaning that automatically the system groups all winning bidders' items together and then the Administrator can add the correct shipping fee and click on a button that will automatically send the winning bidder all of the necessary information by email about the items that they had won. The email shows the price for each item, the sub-total, the shipping charges, the total, as well as payment instructions, and provides a link in each email that will bring the customer to Pay Pal to enable them to pay Autograph Store using their paypal account.


Permalink Development
The individual URLs that the site originally showed for an auction item was https://www.autographstore.com/auction/browse.PHP?id=65502

For the permalink, we developed the URL to read as http://www.autographstore.com/auction/female-celebrtiy-autograph.htm but still pointed it to the same browse.PHP?id=65502 internally. The purpose of this was to optimize the website and to make it search engine friendly.




2. E-energymarket, Erik Groen, The Netherlands

Objective: Customize the PHPauction XL software at http://www.e-energymarket.com/ by making following changes/additions:


B2B
Current auctioning software [PHPauction XL] is made for sales to consumers. The following changes had to be made to make it acceptable for use in the B2B market (sales between companies)

   All fees of E-Energy Market were made excluding VAT. VAT was added on the E-Energy Market invoice to Users (sellers).

   For foreign Users having ruling from the tax authorities VAT percentage that had to be charged on the E-Energy Market invoices for fees, was made zero. However, this depended on the kind of fee and location of the supply. Hence, provision was given to set the VAT percentage per line of the invoice. The following settings are needed:

1. Standard percentage for the site
2. Setting per customer overruling above
3. Setting per line on invoice, overruling above

   Automatic total of VAT in pending invoices and all other admin invoice views.

Customized Registration/Auction page
Registration page and the auction posting page were customized in terms of adding data that are required to produce invoices accepted by accountants and authorities:

   Company Information
   VAT number
   Company Billing address
   Financial Information

Invoices
Also the appearance of the invoice had to be changed to make it acceptable. Therefore following changes were carried out:

   Invoices were generated in XLS format
   Invoices were downloaded in XLS format and converted into PDF format
   PDF based invoices were digitally signed
   Digitally signed PDF were sent to the respective users through the website

Validations
On the registration page and auction posting page, company information and financial information was additionally inputted and following information was validated:

   IBAN or SORT code
   BIC or Swift Code


3. WorldWideAuctionProperty.com, Philip Kyriacou, UK

Objective: Customize the PHPauction EP software at WorldWideAuctionProperty.com by making following changes/additions:


Video upload and display
The system provides a mechanism for the seller to upload a video file to his/her Auction Item; it supports the following file formats mpeg, Divx, wmv, Real player.


Video administration
The video uploads can be managed via the admin program and the following attributes are available:-

   Enable/Disable facility
 Maximum File Size
 Number of Video per Auction Item
 Charging mechanism per mega Bytes

Flash logo administration and display
The system provides a mechanism to upload business Logo in flash format, under PHPauction there is an admin application for this, but does not support Flash files. The system also provides the functionality to justify the above logo, Left, Right, Center, Full Justification, etc.


Gif based categories
The system provides the functionality to replace the category items with "Gif"/animated buttons, hyperlink to their respective categories. The system also provides the functionality to manage the animated category button via the Admin application and the category text file.


Auction Posting
New fields were added to the auction posting forms based on the category under which the auction is posted. The customization was based on three major categories

   Real estate property
 Business
 Land

Example: http://www.worldwideauctionproperty.com

Auction search
The advance search module of PHPauction was customized to incorporate the changes carried out on the auction posting forms.


Administration for category templates
The site caters to three major segments; Real Estate Property, Business & Land. The admin was provided with the module to assign the PHPauction based categories to one of these segments, based on which inputs were decided at the time when Auction was posted under that particular category.


Terms & conditions based on HTML editor
PHPauction provides text based editor to modify the terms & conditions page of the website. The site was customized to use HTML based editor to manage the terms & conditions page of the website.


Validations
MaxMind credit card fraud detection API was integrated into the website to validate the information provided by the users during registration.




4. AliantCompany, Michal Falenski, Poland

Objective: Customize the auction software phpauction XL and phpauction Reverse at AliantCompany.com by making following changes/additions:


Token System
Instead of currency all transactions takes place using tokens.


Forum
Replaced the existing forum of phpauction with phpBB.


Design Customization
The design for phpauction has been customized as per clients needs.


Private Messaging
Developed a private messaging system within phpAuction to allow users to contact each other just like any other traditional mailbox functions.




5. Go Fast Auction, Andy Vitek, US

Objective: Customize the auction software at http://gofastauction.com/auction/index.php by making following changes/additions:


Flash presentation
A flash animation was provided to the client as seen on the header of the website. The flash was developed and integrated into the website as per clients requirements.


Video plug-in
Each seller on the site can upload a video file that gives a pictorial representation of the product that he is selling on the website. We provided the module to upload the video and module to play the video file.


Payment Gateway
Allowed SELLERS to subscribe for a year on the website by making online payment using their credit card on Paypal / 2CO payment gateway. BUYERS were allowed to register on the site for free. Upon expiry of the subscription the SELLERS were automatically reminded about the renewal.


Image resize
Made provision for resizing large images over 100KB to be automatically resized to the best allowed size on the website. This way user could upload any image that they had with them without going through the hassle of resizing the image himself before uploading it to the website.


Free Account
Website administrator was provided with admin module using which he could create SELLER accounts without making any payment and such SELLER accounts could use the auction site free of cost for an year and after completion of a year they automatically forwarded to the online payment module where they have to pay the subscription fee in order to continue using the website.



6. City of Longwood, Ryan I. Spinella, USA

Objective: Customize the PHPauction GPL software at http://ez6.ez-web-hosting.com/~longwood/surplusstore/index.php by making following changes/additions:


Unique Seller
Customize the GPL software so that you/ your website administrator will be the only seller on the auction site.


Timestamp
Insert time stamps on the bids. In the admin module where the admin views the closed auctions and the winner details, on these two pages we will insert the timestamp which will indicate the date and time when the bid was placed.



7. Jeekey.com, Alexandre Viveiros, USA

Objective: Customize the PHPauction Trading software at http://www.jeekey.com by making following changes/additions:


Design customization
Provided a unique design for the site based on the business logic of battering system.


Battering system
Users post items that they want to exchange for items that they are looking for. Buyers can either propose to exchange the items they have on the site; or pay a price for the item.


UPS Shipping calculator
Users can use the online shipping calculator to determine the shipping cost.


Integrate with digg.com
The rss feed provided from digg.com has be integrated into the website to show latest news on the website.



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