auction site in php

tylerboaz · Post by **tylerboaz** » 15 Jul 2009, 09:18

Hi guys,

i was wondering if anyone could possibly help. I have wanted to try and make an auction site in php for sometime now, but as of yet, have reached little success. I have made a login and membership component for the site, but I am encountering difficulty when it comes to the actual auctions themsleves.... as well as the best way to make a "search engine" for the site....

any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Post by **Gogeta70** » 15 Jul 2009, 10:22

An auction website will be difficult to create by yourself. You're dealing with people's money so you have to guarantee security to the users as well. As for the search engine, you'd probably just want to query the mysql database for the search string, after stripping it of dangerous characters, of course.

tylerboaz · Post by **tylerboaz** » 15 Jul 2009, 10:45

tbh?

It was intended more as a "see what I can learn" project rather than an actually financially viable entity...but thank you nontheless!

Thanks for the string idea, Ill try that out.

Post by **Gogeta70** » 16 Jul 2009, 15:29

Ok. Well, if you can explain the problem you're having with the auctions in a bit more detail, i'll try to give you some advice.