Bids - Cancellation at the end of 24 hours

[CEO North Air]

Hi,

are there any possibilities that all bids that won´t be flight at the end of 24 hours past creating that bid, will be cancelled automatically?

Thanks four your help!

Tobi

[Strider]

That should be a simple if else statement, I dont know what it would be, but shouldn't be that hard to find out.

Cheers

Dan C

[Kieran]

There would be some sort of cron job involved I think...

[simpilot]

Hey guys, the date for bids is stored simply as a date so it is tough to comapre a 24 hour period but you can comapre if it is the next day or not. If you put this code at the start of your schedule_results.tpl file it will to see how old any filed bids are. Having the time comparison set at 86400 (1 day in seconds) will erase any bid that was filed two days ago.

ie - any bid made on 2-20-2010 will be erased on 2-22-2010, so you could have an active bid for 47 hours..

You can change that number to 0, but that may not be desireable either. An example using 0 -

any bid made on 2-20-2010 would be erased on 2-21-2010. so a bid could only last 1 second, if it were to be filed right before midnight on 2-20-2010 it would be erased the next time the script ran on 2-21-2010.

<?php
       $bids = SchedulesData::getAllBids();
       $today = date("Y-m-d");
       if(isset($bids))
       {
           foreach($bids as $bid)
           {
              $date1 = $bid->dateadded;
              $date2 = strtotime($today);
              $dateArr  = explode("-",$date1);
              $date1Int = mktime(0,0,0,$dateArr[1],$dateArr[2],$dateArr[0]) ;
              $diff = ($date1Int-$date2);
                  if ($diff < -86400)
                      {SchedulesData::removeBid($bid->bidid);}
           }
       }
?>

This code would be better placed in the index function of the Schedules.php file but you would have to replace it every time you updated.....

good luck! -

[Nabeel]

Simplify this up there for ya:

$bids = SchedulesData::getAllBids();
if(isset($bids))
{
foreach($bids as $bid)
{
	$bid_time = strtotime($bid->dateadded);
	$diff = abs(time() - $bid_time);	
	if ($diff > 60*60*24*2) /* two days, in seconds */
	{
		SchedulesData::removeBid($bid->bidid);
	}
}
}

[stuartpb]

Thanks Nabeel and Simpilot, this is just what I have been tryin to do myself (with no luck). So where is it best to put the code? I looked in the schedules.php file but wasn't sure exactly where to place it?

[Nabeel]

schedule_results.tpl inside that foreach loop, you'll see there are other checks there for the schedules

[stuartpb]

Thanks for that, much appreciated!

[Artjom]

where I want to add this code in schedule_results.tpl? on what line?

[Nabeel]

There's a loop in there (foreach(...) {), it would be inside that. I can't look at the exact code ATM

[mark1million]

Thats good actually as i have for some reason a few bids that i have to manually cancel from the admin side at times, maybe this could be in a further release with the setting in the local config?

[Nabeel]

Can you add it to the tracker? I can add it as part of the maintenance script/cron

[mark1million]

Done, Cheers!

[Nabeel]

Done, Cheers!

Thanks. That list isn't getting any smaller, haha