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

[Action-N]

It just occurred to me to look at the source code for that table to look for set a width. See the table is set for 100% an that actually re sizes, it's the images that won't wrap. From what I can suggest change the html so instead of the individual pictures having their own td section to all of them in just one. Then you'll get your photos to wrap an just squeeze down.

Question to vbulletin.org, what does it take for a mod to be moved to the graveyard? This mod has been unsupported, nor updated, an now their own website has expired.

[Pieper]

Does anyone who is using this mod managed to get rid of the required fields?

[SPEEDKILLZ]

Originally Posted by Action-N

It just occurred to me to look at the source code for that table to look for set a width. See the table is set for 100% an that actually re sizes, it's the images that won't wrap. From what I can suggest change the html so instead of the individual pictures having their own td section to all of them in just one. Then you'll get your photos to wrap an just squeeze down.

Question to vbulletin.org, what does it take for a mod to be moved to the graveyard? This mod has been unsupported, nor updated, an now their own website has expired.

Please explain

Also looks different on different computers
On different computer? I know it is a mod that is doing it but why would it look fine on one computer and bad on another. Here is what it looks like on my friends computer.



And here is what it looks like on my computer.



So what causes it to be different? Any fixes?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Action-N

It just occurred to me to look at the source code for that table to look for set a width. See the table is set for 100% an that actually re sizes, it's the images that won't wrap. From what I can suggest change the html so instead of the individual pictures having their own td section to all of them in just one. Then you'll get your photos to wrap an just squeeze down.

Question to vbulletin.org, what does it take for a mod to be moved to the graveyard? This mod has been unsupported, nor updated, an now their own website has expired.

Many mods are marked as unsupported and many sites die but if the mod still works fine and no security issue is present to our staff we leave it up. Sometimes people need a copy (hacked etc) to re-upload fresh files to continue using the same mod as it worked fine for them but if we removed prematurely "just because" it was unsupported then they would be out of luck. There's more examples I can cite but the gist of it is, if it still works fine let it be as others may need it or can provide support amongst those who installed the mod within the thread - they cannot post or share any hints/tips while the thread is within the graveyard though.

Many in the past have used the idea of a mod but re-written it entirely thereby making their own version of it and fully supporting it, that is allowed like you are doing in your current Garage mod .

[Action-N]

It's probably a screen resolution issue from these photos. I went to your site an scrolled my browser until it overflowed like the first shot an got to 1375px. So if any user is viewing your page with smaller it'll be messed up.
Tried looking at the source code for the table an it probably needs redesigned to make any sense of it. Has a grey line over the pictures so it's trying to use the forum templates.

I reinstalled a fresh copy of this garage so I can look at the template an css used for this. In the mean time do you really think you need that picture box? At least until you can get it fixed.

[Action-N]

Thanks for the response lastSuperman. I just feel sorry for the people that keep downloading this mod an struggle with the problems. Hence I've tried to help with what I can. I have plenty of old mods I burned to a disc for storage, an have gone to find other items on this site that are in the graveyard. So know what you mean, once there there gone. The mod I used to start my project from has been in the graveyard, guess them files need backing up.

[stern]

Hello

Does the VB Pro Garage with vBulletin 4.2.2 without error, or should keep your hands of it.

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Hallo

Funktioniert die VB Pro Garage mit vBulletin 4.2.2 fehlerfrei, oder sollte man die Hände davon lassen.

[MrD]

Hi,
@Stern: works fine.
But the error handling in vb4.2.2 displays some errors like
"Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in..."
to fix that, check your php files and replace the follow code.

PHP Code:

=& new
=&new
= &new 


with

PHP Code:

= new 


[stern]

welchen php files muss ich da checken

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which php files do I need to check because

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by stern

welchen php files muss ich da checken

Please keep all posts in English.