Actually I tried to use your Contact Us link since I knew I could reach you that way. Unfortunately when I went to your home page and clicked on Contact Us link in the "If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us." section (when you aren't logged in) I received a "404 - Not found error". I just checked and am still seeing the same thing.

Regardless, my apologies for not identifying the best person to contact directly and creating an issue with your users.

Sincerely,

Mark

I love the garage plugin and it has become one of those mods my users love.
Right now I'm just using the free version which gets me by fine. The one major thing keeping me from the plus version is the pricing

I have a couple questions
1. I noticed branding free option listed, is that an additional cost for plus, or just included as part of the cost?

2. I am moving to vb4 very soon. will the free and/or plus be available for 4.0

They have a 15% off sale going on now. see here.

Branding free is an additional one time fee on top of the regular license.

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Its our plan to support both free and Plus on vB4. While I don't have a time line I can share right now I fully expect versions to be available in the 1st quarter of 2010.

Thanks and happy holidays!

Mark

Whats about translations? Especially a german translation ..

THX

German:
Also ich habe die DTO Garage Version selber ?bersetzt. Dieses kostenlose Version ist halt leider auch hardgecodet, d.h. Templates m?ssen auch ?bersetzt werden und nicht nur Phrasen.

Bei der DTO Garage Plus Version sind nun nur (fast nur) Phrasen vorhanden und man kann diese "ganz easy" (wenn man Englisch kann) selber ?bersetzen. Du kannst ja mal auf meiner Seite: www.2-wheel-planet.de dir meine Garage anschauen.

English:
To have a German Garage version you have to translate it for your own.
Actually DTO Garage is not fully phrased so you have to translate templates, too.
Currently DTO Garage Plus is fully phrased and easilier to translate. But Mark told us that the free version will be fully phrased soon.

Kolbi - Thanks for the follow up while I was away from my computer over the holidays.

Yes. Since German is not a native language for us and I only know a few words we only provide the means to perform the translation yourself. Currently Garage Plus is fully phrased and I hope to be able to offer a new version of the free version sometime soon that will be fully phrased, contain several new features, etc.

Thanks!

Mark

This looks like a very good mod that I would be interested in using, but for me $95 is way too much for what you're getting. No try for me.

No problem. For many it is too expensive and we understand. That said our goal has always been to provide outstanding support, actual product documentation on all aspects of product use (admin and end user), and active product development. With this in mind we don't feel that we can offer a product at a lower price and still provide these things. Regardless feel free to make use of the free version and, if at some point you see the value in upgrading, we'll be happy to support you.

Best regards,

Mark

I've upgraded my site to 4.x and just disabled garage, I'm hoping that once you guys release a compatible version I can just re-enable it and all the data doesn't get lost for my users. Also if I were to upgrade to pro I'm assuming it all just ports over and no data loss as well

That's correct. I've been working on a vB4 version of Garage Plus and hope to have it available some time in late February. As for upgrading from the free version to Plus you are correct. The data is brought forward.

Thanks

Mark

Had to uninstall as i can see no way to moderate the members garages except through ftp, this would be a diaster if spammers or a disgruntled member uploaded unsuitable images.

Looked to be a excellent mod otherwise.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by moderating through ftp but the Garage Plus version provides, as an administrator, the ability to edit and delete user garages. Additionally with usergroup-based permissions you can control which users have access to their own garages.

If you need any additional information about the differences in the free versus paid versions feel free to PM me and we can speak offline.

Best regards,

Mark

By ftp i meant going to the users directory and manualy deleting the images.

I would love the plus version but $95 is way beyond me sorry.

No problem. I understand. Thanks for your interest anyway.

Mark

Any word on the vB4.0 version?

I just got our ShowCase product into test after added support for vB4. Our Vendor Tools product is next, and then Garage Plus and Clubs. After Clubs is released I'll release the free version of Garage. ShowCase was our most complex to migrate so I expect that the other products will go much more quickly. Thanks!

Mark

Awesome Mark! Looking forward to the garage plus!

Any updates for a 4.0 compatible release?

We just released our vB4 compatible version of our ShowCase product (paid). This is our most complex product and required a lot of changes to work with vB4. That said many of the user interfaces will transfer over to Garage.

Our product release schedule will be Vendor Tools, Garage Plus, Clubs, then Garage (free) but I expect that to take some time to work through.

Mark

hi mferguson

thanks for the great garage plugin
I am in the process of testing out the features before deciding on the plus version.
at the moment, the DTO Garage is probably the easiest to setup and comprehensive but not annoying.

Anyway,
I have One problem.
I can't seem to upload images by url

it returns me with an error that says:

The URL entered could not be opened.

Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you.

I have check the folder permissions.
Could this be a vbulletin issue? if yes, what could it be may i ask?

url: http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforums

Howdy,

Can you give me an example of a URL that is causing this issue please.

Thanks,

hi gnatster,

this happens with any image file url
i tried registering with other DTO garage activated sites like PelicanParts and the URL upload works..

Thanks!
Tom

Tom,

Please visit our site and open a support ticket (upper right corner Customer Sign In link). I'll be happy to take a look at what the issue may be.

Thanks,

Nathan

Tom,
Its likely you php.ini does not have allow_url_fopen to be set to true. This isn't a setting that many hosts like to implement as it could be a potential security issue. That said, in our latest release of Garage Plus, we no longer depend on this setting and use other vBulletin functionality to do the same thing.

Thanks!

Mark

hi gnatster, thanks!

mferguson
thanks for the reply
in that case, i will take some time to think about purchasing the plus version

Thanks!

when will the vb4.0 version be available?

Thanks for the interest.

We have been working on it. I hesitate to give a firm date as one never knows what roadblocks may crop up.

According to the website, Garage Plus is now ava. for 4.0!!!

Yes. Garage Plus 2.0.0 (for vB4) was released last Friday. If anyone needs a demo of the product or additional information please contact us via our site and we'll be glad to assist.

Thanks!

Mark

Hi mferguson,

I installed your hack and everything seems to work fine except for uploading an image into my garage from another server.

Error message:

Warnung: fopen() [function.fopen]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/dto_garage.php (Zeile 977)

Warnung: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/dto_garage.php (Zeile 978)

Warnung: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/dto_garage.php (Zeile 979)

Warnung: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/dto_garage.php (Zeile 982)

Do you know what the problem could be?

oh, just read the post above. any workaround tips?

In this version of Garage you must enable allow_url_fopen via your php.ini. In later versions of Garage Plus we removed this dependency and utilize one of the interfaces provided in vBulletin.

Thanks!

Mark

Mark, my users complained about not being able to put more than 1 bike in their garage. I see that the upgrade for more vehicles is available with DTO Garage Plus. But I don´t see the reason behind paying roughly 100 bucks for just this upgrade. Are there plans to make a plus light version of the DTOG?

Or maybe to buy that multiple vehicle add on upgrade seperately...?

There are no current plans to provide enhanced functionality in our base Garage product. That said the Plus version is more actively developed and there are a number of features beyond just more vehicles in a garage that are included in the product such as better browse and search functions, usergroup-based permissions for garages (ie - for different groups allow different numbers of garages), vBSEO Sitemap and vBSEO rewrite rules, vb4 support, etc.

If you would like a more extensive demo of what's in our current versions of Garage Plus just contact us through our web site and we'll arrange a demo with you.

Thanks

Mark

I installed everything seemed ok, but after reading the continuing steps I found no dto_garage/users directory I created one and set permissions. Furthermore while the mod is enabled my forum acts up such that if i click on a thread I get;

The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
The website is under maintenance.
The website has a programming error.

What you can try:
Refresh the page.

Go back to the previous page.

More information

I am not the most talented vb admin :) i did try to uninstall reinstall to no avail.

any thoughts thanks

www.kmaoffroad.org

Please create a ticket at link and I'll take a look at whats going on. Please note I just got back from traveling for a bit over a week and am playing catch up. It will be Tuesday before I will get a chance to work on this. You will need to create an account on our site to submit the ticket too

Thanks

Great hack, but the copyright on every page...stinks.

Problem that the member is estimated to add more than one car

And where the garage+

DTO Garage does only allow for one Garage per user. DTO Garage Plus allows for as many Garages as desired by usergroup.

DTO Garage Plus is available for purchase on our web site.