I have installed however the garage drop down only shows the "help" link and i cant visit the main garage page its just blank? any ideas... is there a garage overview page like the default albumbs page?

can admins edit / remove images? and edit car titles etc

i also cannot see/set usergroup permissions

In the Plus version you'll find browse and search functions listed in the drop down list. In the free version only help is included. If you wish to hide this from your users just disable the Garage navbar plugin.

As for the garage link in the breadcrumb (navbits) that is something we'll be updating in the next version. We don't currently have an "index" page that shows things like random garages, most viewed, etc. so we'll be adding one. Right now the emphasis was to provide a UserCP manner of creating/managing your personal garage and providing access to it by other users when viewing your user profile or via the link in your posts.

While we're working on the next version (likely available early September) I could provide an interim release that would simply provide a basic landing page with a random selection of garages displayed. Let me know if this would be something of interest.

Also, I've developed vBadvanced modules for Garage and Garage Plus that will provide random garages, statistics, and featured garage functionality that I will be releasing as a separate mod near the weekend.

Thanks!

Mark

When will the next update will published? With the fully phrased Garage :)

Given our other products we are working toward an early September release. I should know more next week.

Thanks!

wow! yes that sounds awesome, id be willing to test all that out etc :up:

FOUND A MASSIVE BUG

people can still access dto_garage.php?do=editgarage when not logged in!

and when doing so it bring up the details of the last users garage...

Thanks for letting us know about this. I'll follow up with you via PM to insure I understand the steps to reproduce this problem. In my quick testing this morning I'm unable to replicate the same problem you are seeing.

Mark

I was also unable to reproduce this bug using dto garage plus. Maybe its limited to the free version?

The bug was determined by the original poster (mferguson) and a swift patch released. Upon installing the patch i can report all is working fine now.

Much appreciated

Cheers

Another little bug, why can guests be able to add a vehicle?

Guest users shouldn't be able to add or manage a garage so the patch I put together resolves this issue.

I'll push out an update tomorrow morning that will include the patch and a random garage index page.

Thanks!

Mark

had another error, be it hosting related or not maybe there is something which can be done ?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/midnight/public_html/forum/dto_garage.php on line 906

Are you on a shared hosting box? If so, this indicates that you've run out of memory when trying to process an image you uploaded into Garage. Usually, on a shared box, you can specify a custom php.ini for your directories to run with. You would want to tweak the following:

• memory_limit
• upload_max_filesize (optional)
• max_execution_time (optional)

Since all hosting companies offer different ways to handle this be sure to check with them before doing anything. For memory_limit most hosts have this set as small as 8M. I would recommend at least 32M or more if your host will support it.

Mark

sure.

my settings are

PHP Max Post Size 8.00 MB

PHP Maximum Upload Size 2.00 MB

PHP Memory Limit 32.00 MB


i will just upload a custom php ini

If, after changing your php.ini, you still have problems contact me via PM and I can arrange a way to get a copy of the file you are attempting to upload. With that we can attempt to reproduce the problem on one of our test servers and determine if there is something more we can tweak.

Thanks!

Mark

I would love to use this but there is only an option for "Help" under the Garage navbar menu. I also manually added the info into USERCP_SHELL to be able to access the garage from User CP.

Can you let me know how to fix this problem? How do I view the overall garage?

Help is the only option shown in the free version of Garage. If you purchase a copy of Garage Plus this menu will include browse and search functions in addition to help.

As for the User CP shell modification you mention I'm not sure I understand what you are attempting to do. For a garage owner you should already have options to manage and add a garage entry under when using User CP.

Also, what do you mean by overall garage? If you are asking where are garage entries displayed they are found in the following places:

- if a user has created a garage entry and it is visible to other site members a "Garage" link will be shown in the postbit for that user. Clicking on that link will display a pop-up menu where you can select the garage to display. When clicked on a new page should open displaying that user's complete garage.

- in the user profile for each user having a garage entry (and its visible) there will be an additional tab in the profile called Garage. If selected you will see a thumbnail of the vehicle and its name.

As I just completed a video demo of Garage Plus I would recommend taking a look at the video as it explains a lot of the functionality offered in Garage Plus and I also note what features are not available in the free version. Click here to check out the video.

Also, I noted above that I will be providing a random garage index page in an update I hope to release tomorrow morning. This will provide another way of browsing garages that have been entered on your site. In our next major release we're planning a more interesting index page with random garages, most viewed, featured, stats, etc along with being fully phrased so it can be adapted for different languages. This will be available around mid-September.

Mark

can I add a suggestion that you can control or changes the filed names. This way this nice plugin can be used for other things except car sites such as other hobby related sites.

You can already do this by viewing the vBulletin Options for DTO Garage. You can change most of the section and subsection titles to support whatever you need.

That said the product was intended to mainly address the needs of motor-related interests. For more flexibility in modeling all types of information, sharing it, etc. we developed another product, ShowCase, that addresses those types of needs.

Mark

Looks like a pretty smart Mod. No problems installing for me.

Is there a method for Admins/Mods to edit (or even just delete) users' Garages in case the feature is being abused?

Thanks,

Adam

Currently there isn't a capability for an admin (or a person with rights to manage Garage) to edit or delete member garages. That said it is something that will have in our planning for an upcoming release of Garage Plus.

Thanks!

Mark

Thanks, I'm looking forward to the update with the random garage index page!

I've gotten everything written and its currently in the hands of QA. Given this I expect we'll have the release out sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks!

Mark

also is it nessecary for the copyright ot be there on every page ?

DTO Garage vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.

also another slight error/bug.. when you do an ajax/quick reply the garage link in postbit isnt there ;)

also again, how do i generate a link to put in my nav bar for the current user to view his/her vehicle (assuming they have just ONE [free version])

Since this is a free version this is something that we require. That said we will be offering a branding free option in the next full release of Garage Plus if you choose to upgrade.

Thanks for finding this. Let me look into this and see how to address this. I know its due to the ajax posting of the reply and the postbit processor not getting called. Regardless I'll follow up and see if this is something I can get addressed quickly and into the release we were planning for today.

Since you would need the id of the garage I'll need to look at how this might need to be handled. Would you want this as a stand-alone link for the navbar or integrate a "My Garage" link in the Garage drop down. With the new random garage index page in the coming release I've added a Garages link to the Garage drop down menu so if you added this option here you would have three options in the Garage link. My Garage, if selected would take you to the Manage Garage UI.

Thanks!

Mark

one of my users received this error when uploading a picture:
I did not receive this error on my PC (tested on FF and IE7). This user has IE7 installed. Ideas?

I suspect that these errors are being generated by the user trying to upload some unknown file type. Can you get a copy of the file and contact me via PM to arrange it to be emailed?

Thanks!

Mark

it's a regular JPG file but I'll PM you now.

I've run into one problem with IE incorrectly identifying the type of JPEG (progressive, etc.) and causing the upload to fail. As soon as I get the file I'll check to see if this is the case and see if there is a workaround to prevent this in the future.

Thanks!

Mark

Found the source of this and have a solution that will be delivered in the release scheduled for later today.

Thanks again for letting us know about this!

Mark

Thanks for the information. I think we're likely to upgrade, more so when this functionality included. Also is the feature there now in the plus version (or planned for the near future if not) to apply different levels of access to users based on additional usergroups? I'd like to specifiy a level of access for all registered users, but apply different settings (perhaps extra/customisable fields, image quota (number and max size) etc. to registered users who are also in one of a number of additional usergroups.

Also, I'm not sure whether this is a problem with my install, or a general glitch/bug; but if when viewing a garage/spot, you click 'Garage' in the link tree at the top of the page (link points to <forumhome>/dto_garage.php?do=viewgarage) I just get a blank page.

And finally - :) - Not that I'm considering uninstalling any time soon(!) - but does the uninstall code remove any template-edits that happened when I imported the product .xml ? It did it all lightning fast and I wasn't prepared for quick changes!

Thanks again for a great Mod...

Adam

EDIT: No, I did think of something else - would it be easy enough for me to make links to garage open in the same window?

I like the mod but just wanted to point out I think the credit in the footer that embeds itself throughout every page including your vBa CMPS is a bit excessive, I think with it being offered free here it should only be on pages that show the garage etc. It just makes the footer look sloppy and no one even knows what it is until they go into the garage regardless.

Just my 2 cents but uninstalling due to that, I have no problem giving credit where it's due, check my mods and you'll see that but modifying the code to go site wide again imo is too much. (And yes I completely understand why you did this but again that was just IMO)

-1

S-MAN

+1 - I hadn't noticed it was added in the footer everywhere :s

This will be coming in Garage Plus 1.2 that we have slated for release in mid-late September. We're finalizing requirements this week but this is on the list.

This is not something that we have planned since our ShowCase product offers these types of features already.

This was a side effect of using the breadcrumb path and not having a "index" page for Garage/Garage Plus. In the release we'll be doing today of Garage we'll be including a index page showing random garages. With this the garage link in the breadcrumb will take you to the "index" page and also has allowed us to get rid of the need to open windows to show the garages.

It should not. When you upgrade to a new version though you should check to insure that template updates we've made are being used. I know with the release coming this afternoon there are a few template changes. To check for template changes after you upgrade:

1) AdminCP >> Styles & Templates
2) Find Updated Templates

As mentioned above this will be resolved with the release later today.

Thanks!

Mark

Again, thanks for your reply. I look forward to the update...

Thanks,

Adam

I just released Garage 1.1.2. Please let me know if you have any issues or questions when upgrading/installing this version.

Be sure to view the topmost post on this page for the version history as it includes information on the new features and fixes included in the 1.1.2 release.

Thanks!

Mark

Thanks. Going to try it out now

i'll upgrade now. The README file is not updated. it still only contains instructions about how to upgrade to 1.1.1, not 1.1.2.

I'm assuming we dont have to upload the files again, just import the XML?

If you look at the version history I have a note regarding the online documentation. Since this is an interim release prior to the 1.2 release scheduled for later in September help has not been updated to reflect the upgrade process or new features included in this version.

Because of a couple of bugs members have found in the last couple of days I wanted to put out this build, add a couple of features to gain additional feedback, and then focus on development of 1.2.0.

I would upload files as well. There is at least one file-based fix that is in this release.

Thanks!

Mark

In the event you missed the version history here is a list of the changes in this release (1.1.2):

New Features

• Garage index page - index page accessible from breadcrumb when viewing a members garage. Displays a random selection of up to 25 member garages.
• Navbar menu - Added "My Garage" link when user is logged in
• Navbar menu - Added "Garages" to take user to garage index page
• With a garage index page member garages are no longer display in a new browser window (the only exception is if you preview your own garage when managing it).

Fixes

• Users currently not logged in are prevented from managing or adding a garage.
• When using quick reply the Garage link is shown in the user's postbit given that the user has a visible garage configured.