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

[bosken]

Thanx alot Dylan!

[bosken]

One more thing - will it still work after I upgrade from vB 4.1.5 - 4.1.7?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by bosken

One more thing - will it still work after I upgrade from vB 4.1.5 - 4.1.7?

Yes, I changed the format of the custom field, upgrading doesn't change that.

[bosken]

Think I found another bug (think this happened after your last "hack"). See pic. Users CAN?T change or add signatures (no. 1).
As soon as they or I add some text to their signature no. 3 appears.
No. 3 I fix with "Rebuild Vehicle Postbit Dropdowns" in the admincp. But signature still not showing.
I also can not close the post bit function in admincp, can set to no, but they still showing.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by bosken

Think I found another bug (think this happened after your last "hack"). See pic. Users CAN?T change or add signatures (no. 1).
As soon as they or I add some text to their signature no. 3 appears.
No. 3 I fix with "Rebuild Vehicle Postbit Dropdowns" in the admincp. But signature still not showing.
I also can not close the post bit function in admincp, can set to no, but they still showing.

Do I still have admin? I'll take a look at it.

[cdoyle]

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?

Can someone confirm if
images/garage/attach folders 1, 2, 3 are supposed to be 777?

I want to make sure before I have them changed to this.

If it's not, anyone know why I'm having this problem

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Can someone confirm if
images/garage/attach folders 1, 2, 3 are supposed to be 777?

I want to make sure before I have them changed to this.

If it's not, anyone know why I'm having this problem

My host was able to fix it! We came from another host, and the permissions were configured wierd when we migrated.

[cdoyle]

Hi,
Now that I have the images fixed, I'm noticing some other little bugs in our garage.

When viewing a car, lower left hand corner is a dropdown and the only option is 'all Vehicles' what is this for?

Also, When you edit a car. The very first 2 fields on the screen are there but no lables. What are they for? Should they be there, or do they need to be removed somehow.

Also, on the garage homepage. When someone updates a car, the updated date does not change. Looks to the created date not the last modified date.

Anyone know how to fix these?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Hi,
Now that I have the images fixed, I'm noticing some other little bugs in our garage.

When viewing a car, lower left hand corner is a dropdown and the only option is 'all Vehicles' what is this for?

Also, When you edit a car. The very first 2 fields on the screen are there but no lables. What are they for? Should they be there, or do they need to be removed somehow.

Also, on the garage homepage. When someone updates a car, the updated date does not change. Looks to the created date not the last modified date.

Anyone know how to fix these?

It looks like you didn't import the latest language file. There are missing phrases from newer versions then the original one you had.

For the date, open includes/garage_func_var.php
About line 3368 and 3370 you will see

$latest_vehicles = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT guv.*, guv.date_created AS QueryDate FROM

Change the guv.date_created to guv.date_updated


EDIT:
The dropdown on the left is for the admin to set an image as a front page category's image.

[Santi86]

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.7:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(vehicle_id) AS vehicles FROM garage_user_vehicle WHERE active = '0';

MySQL Error : Table 'hyundais_hs.garage_user_vehicle' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Monday, October 17th 2011 @ 10:39:22 AM
Error Date : Monday, October 17th 2011 @ 10:39:22 AM
Script : http://*.pl/forum.php
Referrer : http://*.pl/f2/
IP Address : 93.105.44.5
Username : Santi
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.11

I uploaded files, imported a product and see this. Help!