Drivco
Custom PHP car dealership and live auction platform with a real-time bidding engine and admin management panel.
Built a full car dealership and auction platform from scratch in PHP and MySQL — no framework, no page builder. Covers the full flow a real auction site needs: browsing by brand and category, viewing detailed listings with bid history, placing live bids against a countdown, and an admin panel for managing inventory.
The Challenge
A car marketplace is a different kind of project than a brochure site — it needed a real relational data model (cars, bids, users, orders, cart, wishlist) and bidding logic that has to behave correctly under time pressure: tracking the current highest bid and bidder, counting down to auction close, and preventing stale data from showing the wrong price.
The Solution
Designed an 8-table MySQL schema (cardetails, bids, users, orders, cart, wishlist, products, admins) and built the full PHP application around it — brand/category browsing, a detailed auction page with a live countdown timer and current-highest-bid display, an admin login and management panel, and a Tailwind-based UI on top of it all.
Real-time bidding engine with live highest-bid tracking
8-table relational schema covering the full auction lifecycle
Countdown-driven auction detail pages
Admin panel for listing & user management