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I need to set up an online auction . I tried with cron for bid timer but i am always getting a message in mail as permission denied.is there any other method to set the bid timer. Any one please help me.
Thanks in advance.
The best way is to simply add a field in your database containing the
end date & time. The remaining time can then be calculated when you need to display it, and all auctions which have an end time in the past can be shown as closed.There’s no need for any scheduled jobs here. In fact, cron is the wrong tool for this job since a cronjob is not guaranteed to run at an exact point in time (or even at all if the server is rebooting at the time). You may however want scheduled jobs for sending out messages about ended auctions and similar stuff.