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

[sekel]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Change it to

$user_link = 'member.php?u=' . $user_id;

That should work

Works like a charm. Thanks so much, appreciate the feedback!

One more question, the forum's favicon seems to reset to default whenever the Garage is opened, what should be changed for the garage to have the same favicon?

Thanks in advance.

[cdoyle]

Hi,
I hope someone can help, our garage used to work. But at some point it stopped working.

What happens is, if someone tries to upload an image.

at the top of the forum they see this messsage

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-14-13169136471_full.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2821

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpOcgF6R' to 'images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-14-13169136471_full.jpg' in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2821

And then in the garage they see this
Error: Image could not be moved.

when I go and check the permission of images/garage/attach
1,2,3 they are set at 755

Is this correct? the rest are at 777

I tried to change them to 777 but they revert back to 755.

Any ideas?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by sekel

Works like a charm. Thanks so much, appreciate the feedback!

One more question, the forum's favicon seems to reset to default whenever the Garage is opened, what should be changed for the garage to have the same favicon?

Thanks in advance.

You can edit the template garage_headinclude and add it in there.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Hi,
I hope someone can help, our garage used to work. But at some point it stopped working.

What happens is, if someone tries to upload an image.

at the top of the forum they see this messsage



And then in the garage they see this
Error: Image could not be moved.

when I go and check the permission of images/garage/attach
1,2,3 they are set at 755

Is this correct? the rest are at 777

I tried to change them to 777 but they revert back to 755.

Any ideas?

You should talk to your host. Since it worked before I have a feeling they upgraded something that broke your permissions.

[bosken]

Suddenly ONLY me, Admin can see the postbit dropdown link to albums under the avatars. No one else. Can?t find any settings for this in the permissions menus. ?!?

Tried to reimport file, no luck. Also runned the "Rebuild Vehicle Postbit Dropdowns" thingy

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by bosken

Suddenly ONLY me, Admin can see the postbit dropdown link to albums under the avatars. No one else. Can?t find any settings for this in the permissions menus. ?!?

Tried to reimport file, no luck. Also runned the "Rebuild Vehicle Postbit Dropdowns" thingy

The first thing that comes to mind is that it's something with your style. The postbit dropdown is really just data stored in a custom user profile field. There is no group permissions on it, it's either on or off. I am outputting the data into the template hook postbit_userinfo_right (since you are using legacy postbit). Maybe you have some admin only code in there that has that template hook contained in it?

[bosken]

Thanx for the reply! It worked this morning, I bough two skins from CompleteVb, installed them and i THINK after that it stopped working,. Did some other minor stuff also but have no clue what caused this. Same thing in ALL my skins/styles (even in default style that is untouched).

Not so good at this, what do you mean with admin only code? Such as? I have no clue what to look for.

[bosken]

I tried to put a regular registered user in the moderator group, and BAM, he now could see the Garagebutton again....
so admin, super moderators and moderators see users garage buttons. reg users; no.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by bosken

I tried to put a regular registered user in the moderator group, and BAM, he now could see the Garagebutton again....
so admin, super moderators and moderators see users garage buttons. reg users; no.

What does it do on the default theme? It sounds like the template hook is contained within a conditional that is only for moderators and above.
I can check it out if you can't figure it out, I'd need temp admin access.

[Dylanblitz]

I've gotten it fixed, looks like they did some permission changes. Good for forums, bad for me lol.
They made it so private custom profile fields can't be accessed at all anymore. So I modified the custom field to be visible and moved it to the Other area so it wont show on their main About Me profile page.