confirmation of auction bids?

[studio67]

Does anyone working with the webauction application have any code or advice on adding in a confirmation for bids? Basically "you're fixing to bid a hundred bucks, bucko - are you sure?" y/n...

thx so much
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[shannah]

This isn't too difficult to do. You just need to modify the actions/bid.php file to be 2 steps.

One strategy might be to check first to see if a '--confirmed' post variable is set. If it isn't it shows the confirm dialog. Otherwise, it goes through normally.

Of course you would have to duplicate the form with hidden fields on the first step....

An easier way would be to just show a javascript confirm dialog when they initially submit the bid form. This has the downside of being circumventable by turning off javascript in the browser.

-Steve

[studio67]

so bid.php, eh? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'm still getting the lay of the land a little there.

thanks!

[shannah]

yes... and if you were going to just do the javascript method you would be modifying the templates/view_product.html template.

-Steve

[studio67]

thanks even more. It helps to have someone that's walked down the sidewalk a couple of times.