
Readme for TightAuctions

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Overview
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Welcome to TightAuctions!  The system does auctions and also classifieds.  
It provides bidding, placing ads, user account managment, etc. features.  It's 
written in PHP and currently uses mySQL database for the backend.  A Windows 
program called CategoryAdmin allows ease of category administration.


DIRECTORIES
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/			- TightAuctions files
/admin			- administration files
/cat_admin		- category administration (used by the CategoryAdmin program)
/MyAccount		- user account management files
/misc/docs		- Readme and license agreement.
/misc/sql		- SQL table creation file.
/misc/CategoryAdmin  	- Windows category administration program

Place all of the files and directories retaining their structure in the 
/, /admin, /cat_admin onto your web server.  E.g. place everything besides
the stuff within the /misc folder.

Setup
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1) Use the "create.sql" file in the /misc/sql directory to create the mySQL tables.

     e.g. cat create.sql | mysql [database name]

2) Appropriately modify the variables within the config.inc file.

3) Use CategoryAdmin to setup your categories.  See the Readme.txt file within
   the /misc/CategoryAdmin directory for more information about this program.

4) You'll need to setup a cron tab and run the AuctionEndedNotify.pl PERL script that
   will notify users via e-mail when their auction has ended if they are the seller 
   and the highest bidder.


Feedback and/or Questions
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Feel free to e-mail us any feedback and/or questions that you may have to:

	tightauctions@tightprices.com

Cheers,

TightPrices Team



