Sorry I meant that the code should replace that found in the Garage Postbit Pop-up Menu plugin. It certainly wouldn't work well if placed in the template ;)

I've updated my post above to indicate the plugin.

Sorry for the confusion!

Mark

This sounds like a great thing, integrating it with the vBulletin album store.

My thoughts on the questions you have(they can change if someone come up with better one's :)):

"the permissions associated with the current album settings by usergroup"
I think that when you reach vbulletin gallery max a message to the user that the maximum number of images is reached and that he should contact admin if he feels its wrong, or something like that. It should not prevent the creation of new garages, only new images from being uploaded.

"Also, if using the vBulletin album store would it be ideal that the user already have the images he/she wanted in their albums and select those for use in their garage or, when creating a garage, allow the user to load new images and have those go into a given album? If the latter would the user want the ability to choose which album (or create a new album) to have the images placed into."
I think it should go both ways, if the image exist in some album it should be possible to choose that one, but also the user should be able to upload new images through the garage and be able to either put it in a currently existing album or create a new one.

Another thing that would be great is to have some sort of blog function for each garage where you can blog about new things you have done to the car or adventures you have taken with it. And be able to upload images to that specific blog. I guess that gives us the same dilemma as my previous post about picture integration with vb gallery store. But im not sure if you should be limited by the vb gallery max images here. A max number of images/blog is enough i think. So im not sure if integrating it with vb gallery store is such a good idea after all. Maybe it could be solved somehow.

But a blog feature for the garages would be nice however you solve the picture thing :).

What do you think, something that could be done?

Thank you for taking the time to provide detailed feedback. I've added these items to our list of items to investigate further. I can't guarantee that we'll be able to address these in the release we are planning for sometime in August. That said we will look into your suggestions and see what would be involved in supporting them. I especially like the garage blogging concept :up:

Thanks again for taking the time to provide us with feedback!

Best regards,

Mark

Ok great, looking forward to the August release.
I have talked to the man in charge of $ for our forum and I think the plus version is very near :)

Sounds good. Let me know if in the meantime you have any additional questions.

Thanks!

Mark

Thanks for this mod.

I just installed the free version and created a garage.

Every thing seems to be working so far except for the "Garage" link in the navbar.

If I click it, the pull-down works but only the help link is active. Is this because it is the free version? Or is the Garage link supposed to work?

Thanks,
Rich S
http://www.kutsujuracing.com/forum/index.php


Edit:
I do have one real issue.... in adding pictures. I can upload a photo from my hard drive using the browse option. However if I link to a file on the internet I get a blank white screen.

Thanks again,
Rich S

In Garage Plus you'll see additional browse and search options under the menu. In the free version only the help link is displayed. The Garage text is just a title of the drop down menu and does not link to anything.

When using the "URL to Image" option to add an image to a garage it actually pulls the image defined by the URL, resizes, and saves the actual image into your site. This way it insures that the image doesn't go away at the remote location and breaks an image in your garage. Given this make sure that you enter the full URL to an image. For example to use an image that is hosted on Photobucket you have to do a little digging for the full URL of an image:

1) Here is a page containing an image (http://media.photobucket.com/image/b...ture_st4pz.jpg)

2) Right click on the image and select the option to view the image in its own window

3) Right click on the image to copy its URL to your clipboard (or copy it from your browser's address bar). In this case the URL is http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...ture_st4pz.jpg

Note: the URL in #3 is similar to that in #2 but one displays surrounding page content while the other does not. If you were to use the URL in #2 in the URL to Image field you would get a white page - a bug that I'll address in our next release since it should error gracefully.

4) Paste the URL into the "URL to Image" field when adding an image in your garage.

5) Add a caption and click upload.

This should retrieve the image from the remote server, resize it if needed, and save it on your site's server.

If something else is occurring and causing a white page please PM me with the steps needed reproduce the problem along with the URL you are entering in the "URL to Image" field.

Thanks!

Mark

sending now.

Thanks mark!

-Rich

Got your PM and information. I'll test with the information you provided and also see if I can reproduce the issue here. I will follow up as soon as I have an update.

Thanks!

Mark