Converting Auction Scripts from PHP

[Zhakelia]

Hello Community!

Just curious to as if this can be done:
I am wanting to start an Online Business in which i sell my products
(ecommerce). I would be a small business to where I only have limited items in stock. But, I am also doing hand made/crafted things which take time and energy and can only be made periodically. Because of this, I don't necessarily want to put a specific price for these particular projects...I'd rather have people bid to get them.

I did a search in which there are tons of PHP auction scripts to start this kind of site...also open source ones. ( example: http://www.phpstore.info/product_inf...roducts_id=218). Problem is that the host I want to use
( with the Business Catalyst platform ) does not support things such as ASP & PHP.

Is there ANY other way to do an Auction type site ( using Javascript or whatever is needed ) without using server side coding?

Or, is there any way to convert these PHP scripts ( to whatever is needed) ?

I don't want to have to have two different websites to run this operation, and the reason this is so crutial to me is because I love this new platform and want to use it to manage my sites. I was thinking about using Volusions at first until this came out, or came to my attention anyway.

Any Help, Suggestions, Advice, or Any References ( human, online, book, etc.) would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance to ALL
~ Zha

[djr33]

No. You NEED a server side language. Server side languages like PHP process on the server, so they can access databases, store files, and generate dynamic HTML pages.
This is more powerful than Javascript and does NOT require anything special from the user's computer (while Javascript requires that the user's computer allow Javascript).

This does mean that you need to have it installed on your server and that you learn some PHP, though.

The main reason that you must do this is that a client-side only option like Javascript can NEVER store data on the server, so it would not serve any purposes (no interaction with a database, no sales, no searches, etc.).

If you are going to be running an online business, it's time to get a better host (most good hosts allow PHP, ASP, or something else that works like that).


It is, if for some reason this is worth the time to setup, possible to use Ajax (a method in Javascript) to make this LOOK and FEEL like it's working through Javascript (dynamically without reloading the page), but this will then be using PHP (etc) files behind the scenes, so it will be twice as complex (Javascript + PHP, or just PHP, but never just Javascript).