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

[KenDude]

All we are is dust in the wind....

[bosanci28]

You right there friend!... So you never found a copy of the Pro? About a year ago was going to buy a copy of the pro ,but changed my mine on the forum that i was going to open ,but if i had one was going to help!
Now i am almost ready to open a forum and i am in need of a car garage side, and will have to wait to see when Action-N will come out with his script or maybe just install this free one and go from there.

[Action-N]

Yeah Kendude whose attention where you trying to get? I'm subscribed to this post so I get all the notices, but not much more I can do for this add-on. I've wanted to tell you start bugging last superman because he said as long as the product works an has community support it won't go to the graveyard. So I stopped trying to help so it can rest in piece.

I've been working on an alternative almost everyday after work (some days fall asleep at the keyboard) to get something out there. I imagine I could have released a simple bare bones version by now, but I wanted to have everything so I didn't have numerous versions. An actually was gonna check with you as I took ideas from your wishlist. Is it a must have for vin searching? I've added the VIN field an one for horsepower already, just not searchable. I still have to workout editing comments, an started coding for activity stream. Still need to start the sideblocks an those importers people will be wanting.

Guess I should update my website with a more recent project.

[PDPJR]

Dylan and site are back! Just got an email from him that he's back online. He's not working on a new version, but we can at least get the latest from his site now!

[KenDude]

And still no one ventures by...

[autoescala]

Originally Posted by 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 


Work as a charm!!! thank you very much

[KenDude]

Originally Posted by Action-N

Yeah Kendude whose attention where you trying to get? I'm subscribed to this post so I get all the notices, but not much more I can do for this add-on. I've wanted to tell you start bugging last superman because he said as long as the product works an has community support it won't go to the graveyard. So I stopped trying to help so it can rest in piece.

I've been working on an alternative almost everyday after work (some days fall asleep at the keyboard) to get something out there. I imagine I could have released a simple bare bones version by now, but I wanted to have everything so I didn't have numerous versions. An actually was gonna check with you as I took ideas from your wishlist. Is it a must have for vin searching? I've added the VIN field an one for horsepower already, just not searchable. I still have to workout editing comments, an started coding for activity stream. Still need to start the sideblocks an those importers people will be wanting.

Guess I should update my website with a more recent project.

I appreciate you working on this and if your plug-in has the ability to import everything (Cars, mods, pictures, business, etc.) from vbprogarage then I'd certainly consider it. Yes the VIN field must be searchable because what happens is someone buys a car and they want to know if the prior owner was a member of the website, what history of the car might already exist. If they can go into the garage and search by vin they can see if the car has been entered previously. In fact it would be a great feature if when someone tried to enter a new car and it's VIN matched a car already in the database it would ask if they want to add-on to the car's record and take over ownership of the vehicle in some way keeping a lineage of the car. That might be a bit much to ask for in your first version, but I think you see what I mean by that. So yes, in short the VIN# would have to be searchable which vbprogarage supported.

As for a HP field you better have a link for a dyno sheet along with that.

As far as photo uploads go, it would be nice to have the option of either discreet photos managed by the plug-in, meaning uploaded to some folder structure associated with the plug-in, or use VB Albums instead, or us VBGallery/PhotoPost member categories/galleries instead, or even use VB forum attachments. I dislike having photos uploaded via a variety of means and stored in a bunch of different places/ways.

I gave Dylan lots of input during the old CNDGarage/Timeslips days and even on up into vbprogarage.

[KenDude]

Originally Posted by PDPJR

Dylan and site are back! Just got an email from him that he's back online. He's not working on a new version, but we can at least get the latest from his site now!

You must be the only person on the planet he has emailed because he hasn't responded to anyone on his website, not in the forum, not in PM and not to emails sent to him.

You are INCORRECT in that you cannot get the latest from his website, there is no way to obtain a copy of 3.0.9 FULL version from his site.

It's like one big tease...

[jjdurrant]

Any news? I would like to buy the commercial version today but see no way how? Is there an alternative?

[Mark4865]

I recently moved my website to a new server that runs a later version of MSQL and suddenly I can't upload pictures into my garage.

Not sure if one has anything to do with the other but everything else seems to be working.

All help greatly appreciated, any ideas anyone PLEASE