The Garage - v0.1b inplace of vbGarage.

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I've been using vbGarage for quite some time now, at least when it was still "free", and I was frustrated with a lot of its "features", storing the pictures in the database was really slow, no Multiple garages, amongst other things.

So I completely re-wrote a custom version for my own forum, and was thinking about releasing it. I didn't exactly know where to post this, and I don't want to take anything away from the official retail version of vbGarage, but if there is interest, I'd be looking into working on it some more.

The "beta" i have on my own forum is located here

http://forums.generationdub.com/

Click on 'The Garage - [Beta]' to view.

You'll notice that pictures load really quickly, because they are not saved to the database. I've also used "Make, Model..." as their own database, and used AJAX to impliment a better editing system, so that when you change your "Make", the "Model" field is populated without reloading the entire page... things like that..

I also wrote a converted that converts all of the vbGarage database fields and pictures into "The Garage" pictures, so there isn't much to do for transfering over your currenty userbase (it's done automagically)

The thread about what my users have to say about it can be located here.

http://forums.generationdub.com/showthread.php?t=17208

Again, this is early BETA, if not alpha. I only plan to continue to work on it if it's going to be used on other boards, otherwise i'll just make it work for my own board and leave it as such.

The following is what has been added, would like to be added and what has been fixed so far.

The Garage - v0.1b

New:

Pictures no longer saved in database, decreasing load times of pages significantly
New Database design principles.
Re-Write of vbGarage.php, removed all image functions
vbGarage - to - The Garage database converter written
Added "Nav Bar" to "view garage"
Added "Add / Edit functionality to "view garage"
Added User's ride under their name in sidebar of postbit
Added Asyncronus AJAX calls to populate dynamic drop down menus
Added Views
Database for Make / Model added


Next Version?

Select which "icon" to use on main garage
Only display items that a user has entered
Add Engine Type
Add Trim Level
Audio
State the Limit on Pictures
Multiple Cars in a single garage
Align left, instead of centered on the page when viewing garage
Add Smilies to comments
Comment Count
Rating System
Watermark Uploads
Don't let people add without putting make and model of their car

Known Bugs:

Administrators / Moderators cannot delete garages, must be done manually
Some pictures turned "black" in the conversion. Please re-upload these images if this happened in your case. I've found most images and repaired them, but I may have missed a few.
If you delete a previous image, and upload the same image in one "submit" action, then the picture will not display because it was "deleted".
Uploading the same image will display it twice, but if you delete just one of them all of the multiple images will be deleted

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