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

[SPEEDKILLZ]

Originally Posted by 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.

yeah i went ahead and disabled my side block. Currently i am searching for the code, Any idea what template it may be in? I would like to try Zachery's fix

Originally Posted by Zachery

The current html is using a nowrap to make the size of the table refuse to stretch down below a certain resolution, we can fix that in a few ways.

The easiest is to find the div that contains it, and add the following code onto it

style="overflow:auto;"

This will make it so, if it has to be resized, it won't break out of its box.

[SPEEDKILLZ]

or if you can tell me how the div is added to the template so i can move it above the forum sideblock it would be much appreciated

[Adam H]

Anyone had an error on Garage.php for :

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/account/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4715) : eval()'d code on line 1 


New install of 4.2.2 with dragonbytes forum ads plugin installed . Disable dragonbyte mods and the error goes away ?

EDIT......After further investigation, both of the above plugins were conflicting with :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=303416

disabling the above plugin allowed both dragonbyte and garage to work properly.

[Action-N]

stern, it tells you where in the error itself. Here is a screenshot of the ones showing for me.

SPEEDKILLZ, I keep uninstalling this mod so I can work on mine. I figured out how to run in debug mode an seen this mod adds 15 queries to every page just from the navbar. I tried adding a car so I can use the front page block an test out editing css, but was unable to get new models to show in the drop down menu. Looked into the garage_css template an there is only six tags unique to the mod, rest look like developer cutnpasted the default forums style tags. The "garage_fhi_imagebox" is the template your looking to edit, my advice is start deleting parts from the class tags. Just do one at a time an refresh forum page to see what changed. Right click an copy the class variable you cut out, if you need to put it back in.

Oh an for moving it go into the plugin manager an scroll down to "VB Pro Garage Forum Home Pictures" try changing the hook location to get it moved.

[MrD]

Hi,

Originally Posted by stern

welchen php files muss ich da checken

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which php files do I need to check because

you can Check all Files from the Addon or other Addons.
I make it with Textwrangler for OSx they can search folderss or files.

Otherwise, you can disable in the vb config.php the Errorhandling.

[KenDude]

Recently upgraded from 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 when moving from vb 3.8 to vb 4.2.2

Even though Postbit link is set to ON and I rebuilt the postbits in maintenance, they still don't show up. Any ideas?

Blocks on the home page disappeared even though it is set to OLD-Blocks in the config. Looking at the blocks option in config nothing shows up.

I have an approval waiting, but it seems businesses have completely disappeared (as has insurance) in this version. Is there some way to get them back?

I have tried to reach Dylan the creator of this mod but his emails aren't returned, and his phone number is disconnected.

[PDPJR]

Originally Posted by KenDude

Recently upgraded from 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 when moving from vb 3.8 to vb 4.2.2

Even though Postbit link is set to ON and I rebuilt the postbits in maintenance, they still don't show up. Any ideas?

Blocks on the home page disappeared even though it is set to OLD-Blocks in the config. Looking at the blocks option in config nothing shows up.

I have an approval waiting, but it seems businesses have completely disappeared (as has insurance) in this version. Is there some way to get them back?

I have tried to reach Dylan the creator of this mod but his emails aren't returned, and his phone number is disconnected.

His website is also "disabled." I had a personal email address for him, but no response from there either after several days. Not a good sign unfortunately as we really used this extensively.

[PDPJR]

Since it seems like there's some support from others here, I'll ask my question/issue.

We had the vb3 version of the garage loaded on our site (3.8.7). I spoke with Dylan, the developer of vbGarage, months ago about how to upgrade to vb4 and garage 4. He said just disable the garage, update vb, reinstall the correct copy of the garage.

That all seemed to go well and no errors, but once installed, the garage didn't show up in our navigation on vb4 (4.2.1). I COULD access it via its normal URL and under user's profiles. I manually added it to the top header of our forums so users could hit the URL, but now when we open the garage, the top menu where you could see the full list of say 1/4 mile runs and such is gone.

Any ideas?

[MrD]

Hi,
for the VB Navmanager in vb4.2.1 > you must have the Navigation Fix.
Here is an Plugin, that Fix that.
It´s from the Pro Version Maybe you must edit the Links.

Install from the ACP as Plugin and Disable the VBprogarage Plugins called Menu Buttons and Menu Buttons 4.2

[PDPJR]

Originally Posted by MrD

Hi,
for the VB Navmanager in vb4.2.1 > you must have the Navigation Fix.
Here is an Plugin, that Fix that.
It?s from the Pro Version Maybe you must edit the Links.

Install from the ACP as Plugin and Disable the VBprogarage Plugins called Menu Buttons and Menu Buttons 4.2

Thanks! I've never done a plugin though. What do I specify as the hook location?