phil321

Hello there, I have a number of products which I would like to auction off on my site. I would like to get it so that when a customer clicks on a product, they are given the oppurtunity to make a bid for it, right up until the last minute of the auction. I have some PHP and MySQL experience, but is it appropriate to design a script that retrieves the current high bid from a database and allows the customer to enter their email address and a new bid? The script then simply checks if the bid is higher, and if so, sets the new high bid and email address of the new high bidder. What about multiple people trying to bid at the same time - would it be stable (for example, in the last few minutes of the auction)? Or is this something I should rather find a pre-made script to do? Thanks for your time and help!

Hi there... I want to design a page which has over 700 links on it, all of which link to a php file. Each link needs to pass 3 fields of information which always stays the same for each of those links. I originally thought of making each link a submit button in its own HTML form with 3 invisible fields set to their required static values. But these invisible fields still take up space on the web page even though they cant be seen, which ruins the webpage layout. There must be a better way of figuring this out (or at least thats what Im hoping)! Can you help? Thanks for your time!