Attention to all entrepreneurs in the auction business: recent survey shows that online auction has captured more than 40 percent of all e-commerce market shares. Therefore, it is high time that you go online with your own auction business. The good news nowadays is that one does not need any programming knowledge to develop an auction website. A PHP-based auction script can do this task easily. The benefits and advantages of owning such an online portal to do the auction business are manifold and come for a very nominal investment.