How to implement the idea of ​​an auction?

Question

CMS

I would like to make an auction site. I have experience with PHP HTML CSS. Please advise software for creating such a strong system or a ready-made auction engine. Express your opinion on what is better to create yourself or make on the basis of the finished one. Thank you.

Answer 1

Write it yourself, learn frameworks. I can advise Yii, Symfony, laravel

Answer 2

TS in auctions, the most important thing is a lot of traffic on them, if there are no 100,500 people at the auction who want to buy / sell something - it will be dead, without advertising its fate is clear, and advertising needs many many millions of money, otherwise the effect will not be like with social networks - you will never go to a new social network if most of your friends are not in it, and they will not be there without global advertising.
you have a desire to make it + no understanding of how it is done = almost no experience in the web, try to write your own auction just for self-development, most likely give up halfway but learn something.
if you made a mistake and you have a lot of money and you have a desire to do business instead of training in webdev - do not waste time on development and take it ready

Answer 3

a very difficult question from which you can pull out a few more questions, into several of them:
1) What will be the workload of the project (the number of visitors per day, the number of goods, the number of topics of the goods)
2) what should be the auction, ajax-th with a bunch of goodies or the most simple interface
3) what level of knowledge do you have in php b etc.

Answer 4

In order not to fuss with realtime price and rate updates, at least read about comet technology
And since you didn’t list “vps administration” in your skills, I recommend trying to use saas comet server to save time when implementing any realtime goodies.