Re: Ideas please!!
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RE: Ideas please!!
Doug. Running a scheduled task once a minute would likely be rather intensive to the server. You're going to know the auction id when someone places a bid, why not just do an update to the database table at that point? Also, you could use AJAX to update the ending time. !//-- andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253099 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Ideas please!!
place the time in an iframe with a meta refresh set at 15 seconds On 9/14/06, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ajax or Flex might work. -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253100 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Ideas please!!
When the bid is placed, update the auction closing time at the same time, presuming the page will refresh after the bid is placed anyway, and will thus show the new time. Russ -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2006 14:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253101 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Ideas please!!
You can write a page that has nothing but the time displayed on it for an auction based on a url variable passed to it. Then use javascript's httprequest to read that page asynchronously and update the time the user sees. (aka AJAX) As for increasing the time... why not just do that when people bid rather than a scheduled task? 1) Insert new bid 2) Get the time left 3) If it's less than 2 minutes increase by whatever you want. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Ideas please!!
I don't believe you can show realtime without refreshing the page and even then it is not really real time it becomes history from the refresh. One thing of note, the way you are updating the time is by a scheduled task every 1 minute? Wouldn't it be easier to update the tables and times when someone actually places a bid and do it on the fly instead of a having a process run every minute even if it doesn't need to? Say I place a bid with 1 minute left, you update the system with my bid and then fire off a query that updates the auction item's time to 5 minutes from now(). Paul Giesenhagen QuillDesign 417-885-1375 http://www.quilldesign.com - Original Message - From: Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:14 AM Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253097 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Ideas please!!
Ajax or Flex might work. -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is have it where when somebody bids on an item say within 2 minutes of auction close, the auction time is is increased by 5 minutes. I am pretty sure I have that part figured out by doing a scheduled task and having it run once a minute. The part I am trying to figure out, is displaying the new auction time to the browser without refreshing the page. Is this possible? How can it be done if it is? Thanks Doug ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253098 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Ideas please!!
On 9/14/06, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ajax or Flex might work. Flex would be perfect for this, as you can do real-time push stuff with it. I'm just bummed that another critical bug was found in flash player 8. That was one of the main reasons I'd held off so long in going flash... also one of the reasons I avoided JS for so long, but... oh well. Guess all the more motivation for people to have their stuff up to date. I really wish we could get a standard for active content that didn't mess with anything besides some active content. It would be swell to have multi-file upload and whatnot, but sheesh, lets just get a nice, safe method of pushing data first. /rand rant ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253208 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Ideas please!!
Does this auction have proxy voting? I would not be worried about redisplaying the time, if it does as people who use proxy voting are never at the screen anyway. Have you tried eBay and see what they do? ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Ideas please!!
No proxy bidding...I have checked out ebay, and they simply end the auctions at the stated time. I was more interested in continuing the auction if there was a bid in the final couple of minutes for that very reason. I have lost items on ebay where someone bids like 30 seconds before the end of the auction. If you continue it, the people that are putting their items up for sale, will more likely get more $$ for their items. I see it all the time where bidding wars erupt and things get sold for alot more than they are worth due to someone simply not wanting to lose out to someone else. This is especially true at snapnames where they continue auctions like this. - Original Message - From: Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Ideas please!! Does this auction have proxy voting? I would not be worried about redisplaying the time, if it does as people who use proxy voting are never at the screen anyway. Have you tried eBay and see what they do? ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253219 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
