Chris Payne
September 11, 2000
Well, now your auction can run for an indefinite time. People can keep placing bids until you decide to
stop them (good for the seller, but makes bidders kind of unhappy, to say the least). Let's discuss the
mechanisms for stopping an auction.
There are two easy ways to do it. The first, and easiest to perform, though requiring more manual
intervention in the long run, is to simply build in an "Active" bit field into your tblAuctions table.
When you decide to stop the aucti...[ 查看全文 ]