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

[Dylanblitz]

by default it installs as admin only. This is so you can configure it before releasing it to the users.
ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings
Change Garage Menu Button from Admin Only to Enabled

[venom2124]

Is there a way to make the featured vehicles on the home page and maybe a way to vote on the featured vehicles to get the vehicle of the month.

[Dylanblitz]

There are a few different options for setting the front page vehicles on the Garage General Settings vboptions section, featured vehicle is one of them.
I'm working on a way to nominate and vote on vehicle of the month for 2.2.x

[deadbolt80]

So, basically just follow the "quick and dirty" install, and everything should work fine, right?

I'm trying this tonight.

[Dylanblitz]

yes, if it's in the forums directory it should work. Only repeat issues I've seen is having to set the images/garage/attach folder to 777 if you get permission errors uploading images and sometimes having to set the Garage Files URL field in the Garage General Settings

[deadbolt80]

this is what i got

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1730

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Unable to access images/garage/attach/4/8 in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1730

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Unable to access images/garage/attach/4/8/5 in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1730

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Unable to access images/garage/attach/4/8/5/0 in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1730

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Unable to access images/garage/attach/4/8/5/0/7 in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1730

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to access images/garage/attach/4/8/5/0/7/garage_vehicle-1-12692537291_full.jpg in

what does this mean??

I did change the attach folder to 777

What garage files URL? what do I post there?

[Dylanblitz]

who is the owner of images/garage/attach? Changing it to 777 usually works.
The Garage Files URL wouldn't cause this problem, it has to do with the folder ownership.

EDIT:
Also, is safe-mode on?

[deadbolt80]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

who is the owner of images/garage/attach? Changing it to 777 usually works.
The Garage Files URL wouldn't cause this problem, it has to do with the folder ownership.

EDIT:
Also, is safe-mode on?

I'm not sure If i understand your Q. what do you mean who's the owner?

I uploaded the files in the "Upload" folder to the server under mysite.org/public_html/forums, right? did all the steps as stated and changed the permissions to 777 to the "Attach" folder. Am I missing something?

And no safe mode is not on. The forum is active and perfectly fine.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by deadbolt80

I'm not sure If i understand your Q. what do you mean who's the owner?

I uploaded the files in the "Upload" folder to the server under mysite.org/public_html/forums, right? did all the steps as stated and changed the permissions to 777 to the "Attach" folder. Am I missing something?

And no safe mode is not on. The forum is active and perfectly fine.

Safe mode is a php function, you can tell if it's on by going to ACP->Maintenance->View PHP info
Look for the safe_mode setting.

If you look through your ftp program it should tell you who the owner/group of the attach folder is.

[deadbolt80]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Safe mode is a php function, you can tell if it's on by going to ACP->Maintenance->View PHP info
Look for the safe_mode setting.

If you look through your ftp program it should tell you who the owner/group of the attach folder is.

under acp>maint>view php I found this:

safe_mode:

Local Value: On Master Value: Off

safe_mode_include_dir

Local Value: /usr/local/lib/php/ Master Value: /usr/local/lib/php/

on line 1730 in the /includes/garage_func_var.php, this is what I found:

{
mkdir($filedir);
}

How do I adjust this?

MY hosting company doesn't use FTP. I log on to access my files using 6thgenmaxima.org:2222

The only confusion I might think of is when I uploaded the contents of the "upload" folder, I made all the contents into a zip file, uploaded that zip file onto my forums directory, then extracted it. Should I have uploaded the Upload folder itself or only the contents of it?