es|f| is a web based frontend for esniper, the lightweight console application for sniping eBay auctions.

es|f| is a web based frontend for esniper, the lightweight console application for sniping eBay auctions.

|es|f| is written in PHP Javascript and use files for data storage, no database needed. |es|f| is build using modules and plugins.

Features:
- supports most features of esniper
- user regime, multiple user can use same installation independent from others, with autonomous frontend and esniper configuration (using optional config.php in USERDIR)
- organizes auctions in categories and groups
- auction layout “dragdrop” supports drag & drop assignment of auctions to categories / groups
- on add auction, copy item image from ebay to local
- input of image url, if not found automatic
- read shipping costs from ebay or via watched items / input of shipping costs
- read seller from ebay or via watched items
- enter comment for each auction
- add multiple auctions, define group settings and start snipe in one step
- bid for an single auction or bid for a group of auctions,
- bid for auction group with quantity > 1
- direct bid for auction (esniper -s now …)
- bidding of auction group with different price per auction
- show esniper protocols, also reversed (reduces scrolling to take a look of last esniper activity/messages)
- display watched auctions from ebay
- add auctions from watched auctions to es-f
- automatic / manual refresh of auction status, also in background
- list running esniper processes
- possibility of kill esniper processes manually (e.g. orphan processes as a result of a system inconsistency)
- help screen with explaination of top features
- add an auction direct from an ebay page via bookmarklet (mod_rewrite and javascript required)
- module based, each module covers a specific business function
- modules can be enabled/disabled, except module “auction”
- auto-link module into menu
- 3 types of menu, text, image only, image & text
- extendable via plugins
- plugins can be enabled/disabled
- frontend in english and german
- embed new translation easily, fallback to english for not translated phrases
- themable via templates and/or style sheets
- fallback to default templates/style, if required template/style not found
- module specific layout definition
- different styles for media screen and print possible and used by layout “default”
- in debug modus all executed system commands are shown (activate in plugin/debug.php and activate via url parameter debug=1)
- offline modus for development installation without internet connection, all system commands, that requires internet access, are just simulated. (with limited esniper functionality, activate via url parameter offline=1)
- fully functional with disabled image display in browser
- fully functional (except bookmark add) with disabled javascript in browser