oh hell yes!

*clicks install*

This looks interesting also: http://www.horsepowered.com/members/

Also looks like a lot of SVTOA's concepts are in this script posted here on VB.org

This hack just keeps getting better and better!!

(It's starting to become a pain to update every few days) :)





wow, I *heart* that script!! =)

If anyone knows where to find this, (especialy if its vb integrated) please let me know!!!!!!!!

This is an amazing script! Im going to install it, as soon as I makes some modifications as I already have 'ride' field.

Are you going to make a VB3 version of it?

Thanks. If they release VB3 before my membership expires I'll probably port this over.

Im in a similar situation as well. Many years agao, I created a vehicle registry page and photo gallery in php, which members cannot update. What I want to do is create a vehicle registry that is integrated into vbulletin that can accept unlimited cars per member and several pictures per entry. I would try to make it generic enough so it can be used by many people. Im going to try to start during the holidays and it will be for VB3.

Updated 11-10-03: -Added the vehicle profile addon to the hack instructions. Added the ability to ban users from editing their vehicle profile to the hack instructions.. Added a few new fields to the vehicle profile page (race weight, track, D/A, mods, tranny type, etc). Added a "details" column to the Timeslip Database page which lets you view all vehicle profile fields when the details link is clicked (see demo).

I'll post upgrade instructions when I get some free time. Or if you've already installed a previous version you can add the vehicle profile and ability to ban users from VP addons manually by using the instructions posted a few pages back.

Evil, you going to keep ripping off other peoples concepts amd not even give them props?

For those of you wanting to know where I believe most of the concepts are coming from go look at Mach-1.org ( hes to modest to say anything ) or look at HorsePowered.com's member pages.

Mach-1: http://www.mach-1.org/vbulletin/memberlisttest.php

HorsePowered: http://www.horsepowered.com/members/

Um, excuse me, but FYI Timeslip Database scripts that have many of the same functions as mine (and the ones you listed) have been around for as long as I can remember.


A few examples for you:

phpBB timeslip database hack:
http://phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=546
This one was also made by ME a couple of years ago.

One of many sites using my old phpBB version:
http://www.fl-thirdgen.org/forum3/timeslips.php

A different one:
http://www.sportcompactracing.com/vb...n/TIMESLIP.php

Here's one thats almost identical to the Mach1.org version:
http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/timeslip.php

Here's a version thats a separate script which works independantly from the forum software:
http://www.ls1tech.com/quarter/LS1tech_list.php

Yet another one:
http://www.ls1.com/qtrmile1.htm

As for the sorting by ET brackets (11 sec cars, 10 sec cars, etc).. No offense intended to SVTOA, but this concept was also thought of a long time ago.
Here's just one of many sites who already use it:
http://www.corral.net/timeslips/timeslips.html

BrendonM requested it and I added it.

As you can see, all of the "concepts" mentioned in this thread have already been done numerous times by others. I'm not the first person to come up with this idea, I simply made a version of it that works with vBulletin. Any "addons" which I've added to the vB Timeslip script were requested in this thread and coded by ME.

So in short, you should get your facts straight before making lame accusations.

Evil: I *really* want to add these new updates to my script, but I'm afraid of messing things up as the script has changed significantly since I first installed it..

Any suggestions??? Do you still have archived versions of the earlier released hack that I can use to compare with the new one?

While I agree that ripping ideas without credit is a big no-no, from the sounds of it Evil is just using other peoples ideas as inspiration for his own work. It's not like he's taking someone elses code and re-labeling it.

alkatraz,
Which upgrades are you wanting? I have a copy of version 1.2 which includes the ET brackets sorting methods. The vehicle profile and ban user from VP addons are also posted a few pages back.

I will make an upgrade script for 1.3 in the next few days (when I get time) but if you really want to upgrade now you would have to completely uninstall the hack, then re-install it.

I'll attach v1.2 incase you want it. Just replace your timeslips.php file with the new one and replace your templates with the new ones.

Exactly. This script was coded by me alone. As for the ideas for new features, like I said, they've already been done by many others in the past (in non-vB scripts). None of them are new concepts. Its kinda like forum software.. There's several different (yet original) scripts availible that include many of the same features. Its not a rip-off as long as the code is original. Honestly, If I knew who made the first timeslip script I'd be more than happy to give him credit for the idea. But there's so many different versions availible which have been around for years, so I have no idea who made the first one. Hell, this isn't even the first one that I've made.

Anyway, older version attached:

No actually you should give props to the people that your currently copying, which you know you are.

With 431 post you have, you should know by know that on VB.org we give credit where its do.

Those new mods you just started adding with equipment based ideas, strange, 3 days after you inspected someone elses site I imagine?

Odd, very odd...

And as for lame, dont get me started. Play by the rules on this site EvilLS1, and dont play it off as unrealized potential.

You can say whatever you want, I just think you should give props to those sites, that I know your currently building after.

I mean, some of us are dumb, but not that dumb.

Those links you posted are great, truly I am sure they are.

But suddenly your adding equipments mods and other things just like, hmmm... HorsePowered.com

My beef with what your doing is this. Your script stayed on a set path of featuresets until just a few days ago, after all this time, until a link was posted to another script, and then suddenly wella, here come the matching featuresets.

Call it what you want guy, but it sure looks odd.

And before anyone jumps in and screams about ranting and raving, remember, we do give props on this site to others for their intellectual concepts etc.

EvilLS1 I am truly interested in seeing where you are taking this script, and am very much awaiting to see your original concepts you will be adding.

Don't disappoint us.

rishel,
Did you even take a look at the links I posted? ALL of the ideas used on the site you mentioned have been done before on OTHER sites that I've been visiting for YEARS.

..and just like, hmmm... LS1Tech.com, LS1.com, and a sh*tload of others. Its been done a million times! Get over it!

If you are referring to the new fields which I added in 1.3 (race weight, track, D/A, mods, tranny type, etc), those are common things that nearly ALL drag racers want to know about when discussing 1/4 mile times. Again, take a look at LS1Tech.com or LS1.com and you'll see the same thing there. Now I've been visiting those sites way before I even became a member of vb.org, so how can you possibly think that I got the idea from the sites you mentioned? There are MANY sites who incude those fields in their timeslip details.

FYI I had plans to release many updates when I posted the first version here. I just wanted to make the base (bare bones) version availible first to see what others thought of it. Incase you haven't noticed, I've been releasing updates every few days since I posted this hack. None of these 'concepts' are new to me. They have been around as long as the first Timeslip script itself. I'm sorry but you are WRONG about this whole thing.

Like I said in my post above: If I knew who made the first timeslip script I'd be more than happy to give him credit for the ideas. But there's so many different versions availible which have been around for years, so I have no idea who made the first one.

Well with all 34 posts that you have, you should know to stay out of things which you obviously know nothing about.

You honestly have no clue, do you? VISIT THE LINKS I POSTED! These ideas have been in use for YEARS on many other sites that I visit. I've seen them all before!

Using your logic, I guess all of those people should also give ME credit for making the first forum integrated Timeslip Database more than 2 years ago (phpBB)? Since I had the idea first right? Nope. Thats lame. Unless they're using my code they do not owe me any credits.

BTW, I noticed that your site ( http://www.integritymessenger.com/ ) doesn't give any credit to AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, or any of the other original instant messengers.. Aren't you being slightly hypocritical here? After all, the instant messenger was NOT your idea, and yours does seem to have ALOT of the features from the other messengers!

See how stupid that sounds?


Its people like you who make me not even want to waste my time writing instructions to share my hacks. Infact, I think I'm done with this one. :angry:

please noooo!!! =) don't let politics stop you.

if this is against the rules rishel then report it to a moderator and they can decide. personaly I see nothing wrong with it. I've been to thousands of automotive sites and these types of features are seen everywhere. however this is the first time i've seen something like it for vbb so i'm happy to see someone has been kind enough to share their work. he runs an automotive site and probably just made it cuz he couldn't find anything like it out there. I *wish* I had the programming knowledge to put something like this together myself.

thank you again EvilLS1

Good riddens. Nows the part where you want people to beg you to keep making it, and then try to get them upset with me.

And as far as my 34 posts, I know more about whats in the automotive industry than you think, and I know a fork-er when I see one.

I give credit where credit is due.

And if you pull the date of creation line on me again, I will embarrass you and show you a time slip concept from a board that FAR supercedes your 2 year claim.

No, nows the part where you ruin a perfectly good thread/hack with your ignorance.

You may know something about the automotive industry, however that has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. What you DON'T know anything about is timeslip database scripts and drag racing in general.

Really? Then where is credit given on your site for ideas borrowed from the original instant messenger? Thats what I thought.

You're asking me to give credit to someone who did not influence my hack and did not come up with those concepts in the first place. How stupid is that!? But if it makes you feel better, then fine.. Special thanks to whoever it was that came up with the first timeslip script. And thanks to all those dozens of sites that (just like me) have re-invented and improved upon the concepts used within the first one.

Show me. The only one who should be "embarrassed" here is you. Idiot.

He thinks I am with the instant messenger site?

LOL, ummm, ok. Sounds good!

Well gee, I wonder what gave me that idea.. Could it possibly be the fact that you have it listed as your occupation and homepage in your pofile? (duh!)

BTW, I just took a look at the horsepower.com site (for the first time). Its not even a Timeslip Database script. It more of a mini-homepage for car enthusiasts. Completely different than what I released here. If you can't see that, then you're blind.

Even with all of the proof that I've shown you about your so called "concepts" not being original, I'm sure you'll never admit you were wrong. Crow doesn't taste so good eh?

I've got this thread reported by a vb.org member and I want to understand what the problem is. If conflict is not yet solved, I appreciate if someone can take sometime and recap what's going on as I am not familiar with the automative scripts. :)

In the meantime, here are some points depending on what I understood until now: (and plz forgive if I understood wrongly)

1- If someone "converts" a code of another to release here, he should get permission of the author. Eg. if you want to include phpmyadmin into vbulletin to release here(what a job that would be lol), you have to get phpmyadmin's author's permission.

2- If you code your own script that does something another program is doing, and you coded it from the ground, you don't have to get anybody's permission to do that. Eg. if you code a vb hack from the ground that does what phpmyadmin is exactly doing, you don't need a permission, because you coded it from the ground. If it were otherwise, vbulletin itself would never be coded since there were other bb scripts around that use the same "concept". ;)

3- Exception of Rule 2: If you recode a "small" vb hack to release here, we want it relased in the original hack thread as recodings of small hacks are usually no different than the original hack due to the volume of the code.

Hope these general principals shed a light to the problem you are discussing.

And a kind request for rishel:
If you believe this hack is breaking any vb.org rule, please report it to moderation team, instead of flaming the thread so that we can moderate accordingly. Because if it is not breaking any rules, then your comments might be discouraging hack author unnecessarily and cluttering the thread with wrong assumptions and we wouldn't want that. :) On the other hand, if it is breaking a rule, our moderation will solve the problems so there won't be any ground for such comments in the thread. Thank you for understanding..

Logician ,
Thank you for re-enforcing my point.

rishel, READ!
FYI (logician), this was all coded from the ground by me. There are no other released timeslip scripts for vbulletin. Only mine. If you read back through this thread you'll notice nothing but positive replies (other than rishel's) from other users as this is all original and nothing like it has ever been released here.

Here's a quick rundown on the situation:

rishel claims that I have "ripped" the concepts (ideas) which are being used on a site that he/she visits.

To prove otherwise, I posted several different Timeslip Database scripts from other websites (including a script that I wrote about 2 years ago) which use the same concepts as the one she mentioned and have been around for years.


rishel doesn't seem to understand that all timeslip database scripts share many of the same features. Just like forum software.

Honestly, until today I had not even looked at the horsepower.com site which rishel claims that I "ripped". But after looking at it, its completely different than my own.

You can take a look at this post and you'll see for yourself that there are many different timeslip scripts which share the same or similar features:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=90

So in short, rishel is very confused and is making false accusations.

You're still missing the point, sweet cheeks. Even if that site had some of the same features, it doesn't matter because 1) I did not copy anything from that site. 2) they are not the first or the last website to use those concepts for a script such as this one. and 3) This was coded by me from start to finish, so the fact that other sites have similar features is irrelevant.

I have no need to discredit you. You never had any credit to begin with. Your accusations are false and way off base. You're obviously not mature enough to admit you were wrong and move on. Instead you just keep slinging insults like a 5 year old. By doing this you discredited yourself.

Good. Now could a moderator please remove this garbage from my thread? Thanks.

@EvilS1: done.

@rishel: Given the situation and hack's complying by vb.org rules, your flame is unjust and unnecessary. Message removed. Please help us grow this community by encouraging hack authors to share their work. They are here with uncommercial purposes, sharing their work, offering free help thus offending them in their hack threads is not helping anything. Especially when there is no ground to flame their hack which seems to be complying by vb.org rules.

If we restricted release of hacks here just because their concept is similiar to a different project, we would have no hacks. 99.9% of the hacks here is for sure similiar to an other project in the internet regarding its concept. I'm sure even your own site (whatever it is) is not unique in its subject and I'm sure internet's having a site about "X" did not stop you openning your own site about same subject, did it? Coding business is no different..

Thank you Logician.

Attached are instructions on how to upgrade all previous versions to v1.3.

Oops. Forgot to change the file name in the url for the insert action. Its fixed now. Redownload the upgrade script and run it again. BTW, if you've added any new custom profile fields with IDs from 58-63 you'll have to remove them or change the IDs first.

I just finished installing this hack. Thanks so much, EvilLS1, it works perfectly!!!

*clicks install*

Hmmm, I just had an idea...

Is there any way to get 1/4 mile times in the PostBit? And only show up in the postbit if the user has the info listed in their profile?

(no space between $ and p)$ post[fieldXX]

Excellent! But how do I know what the field# is?

goto custom fileds in the admin cp... hover over the link to edit one of the fields and note the url of that link it will say the field number at the end its probally 51 or sumin hight like that ;)

OK, I got the fields... But one problem: If the user doesn't have any info entered, it displays 0.000@0.00 in thir postbit. Is there any way to stop this from happening?

BTW, on my forum it's field55 and field56. :)

theres isnt n e short way to stop this im afraid y dont u link thetimes in the postbit to the edit info page so wen a user sees they have no time it will inspire them to go and fill it in :~)

sunrunner_pei,

In admin/functions.php find:
Above it add:
Then in your postbit template put this where you want the 1/4 mile ET to show up.:
This way it will only show up if an ET has been entered by the user.

An awesome hack, I installed it on my forum. Thanks!

I created a 'timeslip' PSD and GIF file which you can use on your forum. The zip file contains the PSD, GIF, a screen shot and instructions on how to add the button to the header.

@EviilLS1: You can add the button to your next update of the hack.

Looks good Optima. Nice job.

I added a link to your post in the add-ons section.

EvilLS1, thank you so very much!!! That worked perfectly!

You're welcome sunrunner. :)