Add-On Releases - VB Pro Garage Timeslips

Description
VB Pro Garage Timeslips (formerly CND Garage/Timeslips) is a free vehicle and timeslips add on for vBulletin 4. This is a great way to allow members to show off their rides, whether they are cars, motorcycles, atv's, etc. Site administrators have dozens of options to tailor the way the garage is displayed and the number of vehicles, images and timeslips the user can enter. User vehicle creation is done through a simple screen with dropdowns and simple text fields. Users can enter either miles or km and system will automatically calculate differences for front page statistics.

** New Features **
* SEO Friendly URLs (htaccess only)
* Page Caching - physical html files which make a HUGE reduction in sql queries
* Front Categories - a category system as an alternate front page to the block layout. I believe it will increase the garage ranking in search engines greatly when used with SEO URL's and the included dynamic meta tags.
* Thread Creation - Automatically create new threads in the forum of your choosing with the text of your choosing when a new vehicle is created in the garage.

Main Features

* No vb template modification needed
* Ajax driven menu's to keep load time down if you have a very large lists of makes/models
* Usergroup level permissions to set the amount of vehicles, images, timeslips allowed
* 99.9% of the text is phrased so that it can be translated for multinational sites
* On the fly image/text watermarking ability to make sure images are tied to your site
* Lytebox image presentation

Installation
Instructions, tips and more are now in the included chm file. If you have problems with the chm I have the document published at:
http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/docs/html_vb4_ts_300/

The quick and dirty install:
1) Upload all files in the upload folder
2) Import vb_pro_garage.xml into Product Manager
3) Import vb_pro_garage_language_english.xml into Languages & Phrases
4) If you want all makes and models I've collected, import vb_pro_garage_vehicles^^new_install_only.xml into Product Manager

Post Installation
So you don't have to find it in the instructions. After install, there is a button up top in the navbar. This button by default is admin only. This is so you can configure and test without having to close the garage. When you are ready to deploy to the community:
ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings - Set Garage Menu Button to Enabled.

The garage is developed on vb 4.0.7 and tested back to 4.0.0. The garage will run on PHP 5.x+ compiled with GD/GD2 and MySQL 5.x+

Additional options for the garage like adding featured businesses that support your site, fuel tracking, dyno charts, modifications and lots more are included in the commercial version.

Many thanks to Coroner for his stylebridge which led me on a path that saved me hours and hours of template editing

There are a few bugs that you might run into on this version. Instead of working on correcting them in the files and working on getting a new package up here, I'm working on the next version and including the posts that fix the errors here.

Change Log:
v3.0.9 - 09/29/2012
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Fixed sql injection problem
Replaced depreciated split function usage
Fixed sql error on image comments
Fixed Make/Model count on front page resetting to 1
Fixed extra unlabeled field on vehicle create/edit (Timeslips only)
Fixed postbit dropdown showing character code
Fixed tables incorrectly set with TYPE instead of ENGINE
Added navigation manager links to product xml

v3.0.8 - 12/9/2010
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Fixed missing vehicle comment code

v3.0.7 - 12/1/2010
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Fixed error with non existant garage_special_track table

v3.0.6 - 11/21/2010
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Fixed who's online error
Fixed map infowindow colors

v3.0.5 - 11/15/2010
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Fixed error with member profile vehicle block
Fixed member tab url path
Fixed error on vehicle map with apostrophes in title

v3.0.4a - 11/12/2010
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Corrected package error

v3.0.4 - 11/11/2010
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Fixed error with front blocks
Fixed style error with vB4.0.8 changes

v3.0.3 - 11/2/2010
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Fixed duplicate countries
Fixed vehicle view slideshow image size
Fixed username browse error
Fixed geocode error on missing zip
Fixed postbit error with vehicles that have a apostrophe in the name

v3.0.2 - 10/25/2010
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Fixed missing add vehicle button on member profile
Added bbcode capabilities to welcome box on garage front page
Moved vehicle count to db table to ease db queries
Added notification scheduled task to send message to new users about adding a garage entry
Added default clear image for watermark
Fixed code to disregard watermark option if image is missing
Fixed search username error
Updated obsolete data queries
Added SEO Friendly URLS
Added page caching capabilities
Fixed sql error with moving vehicle class and color to new selection on deletion in ACP
Added function to replace non english characters with english characters in ajax selection lists
Added image comments
Added notification for image and vehicle comments
Added option to add page title
Added zip code to vehicle and googlemap
Added ability to disable and ability to hide info for googlemap

[pportuese]

I also took a pdf file and converted it to jpg. I tired to upload it and got this error.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8808 bytes) in /home/mitsuwor/public_html/forums/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1882

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by pportuese

I also took a pdf file and converted it to jpg. I tired to upload it and got this error.

Hmm, how large is the jpg? It shouldn't hit your max, which seems to be 32M

[pportuese]

315k that's it.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by pportuese

315k that's it.

Can you send it to me? I'll set my php to that limit and see if I can replicate the problem. I'll pm you my email.

[pportuese]

ok i will for sure. thanks
Also I can access the garage and add cars. Regular members can see cars but not add them. How do I fix this?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by pportuese

ok i will for sure. thanks
Also I can access the garage and add cars. Regular members can see cars but not add them. How do I fix this?

Did you enable the button for all and not just admin?
ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings->Garage Menu Button

If that's set to Enabled then it depends on the permissions you used.

ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings->Usergroup Permissions
If you used Basic permissions it should set the registered users group by default to be able to post vehicles.
The groups are set on the tab
ACP->Settings->Options->Garage Basic Permissions Settings

If you used Advanced then it's controlled on the left side pane
ACP->VB Pro Garage->Usergroup Permissions

[pportuese]

I got it figured out thanks. I had to add the numbers 1,2,3, etc for the usergroups.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by pportuese

I got it figured out thanks. I had to add the numbers 1,2,3, etc for the usergroups.

Good to hear. I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with the image upload error. I was able to replicate it but I don't know how much more I can trim it down to not generate the error.

The problem is that GD is a big memory hog when resizing images and 32M isn't that much anymore. Maybe you can ask your host if they can raise it up to 64M or ask if you are allowed to temporarily set it through scripts. Otherwise you'll have to set the garage to not resize and just set a max size for images.

I was able to upload the image with my memory limit set as low as 48M.

[discontained]

Hi, i installed this and its great so far. Just 1 question. It does not match my theme, the background of the text boxes are white, and my site is black background. Is there a way to edit this?

Thanks!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by discontained

Hi, i installed this and its great so far. Just 1 question. It does not match my theme, the background of the text boxes are white, and my site is black background. Is there a way to edit this?

Thanks!

It does this with a few styles. You can manually set the box colors by doing the following
ACP->Styles & Templates->Style Manager
On the style having the problem, select Edit Templates on the dropdown box
Scroll down to VB Pro Garage Templates
Expand it and double click the garage_css template

About 7/8th of the way down find .alt1 and .alt2
Change the background from
background: {vb:raw alt1_background};
to something like
background: #000;

You also want the alt2 background to be slightly off from that if you want to have the alternate rows colors to be different.