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]

unfortunately it might not be something I can fix. If they use safe_mode then your host probably doesn't have your account configured in a way that you can create a folder and execute things like mkdir in it.
You might ask them to remove safe_mode from your account.

[deadbolt80]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

unfortunately it might not be something I can fix. If they use safe_mode then your host probably doesn't have your account configured in a way that you can create a folder and execute things like mkdir in it.
You might ask them to remove safe_mode from your account.

if they remove safe mode would that help?

[Dylanblitz]

It should, never had much luck working with safe_mode on. They might not do it though. From experience I've seen that hosts put on safe_mode because they don't know how to properly secure the server or they don't want to spend the time.
Will be nice when PHP 6.x comes out so we wont have to deal with that issue anymore heh.

[deadbolt80]

Ah ok. So no garage install for me I guess

Are you sure i'm installing this right? i don't even know.

[Dylanblitz]

Sounds like it's installed right, just getting a permissions error. I would ask the host to take a look and see if there is something messed up with the owner/group of the images/garage/attach folder.

[deadbolt80]

ugh this is irritating :-(

Thanks Dylan

[Dylanblitz]

Sorry about the problems, hope it gets worked out

[deadbolt80]

Hey dylan,

I contacted my hosting company and they disabled all safe_mode all together. I checked my vB admincp settings and viewed the PHP info and it's all off. I'll try to re-install again tonight and see what happens.

now my Q to you is: If I made the entire "upload" folder into a zip file then extracted it in my forum root, would that work?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by deadbolt80

Hey dylan,

I contacted my hosting company and they disabled all safe_mode all together. I checked my vB admincp settings and viewed the PHP info and it's all off. I'll try to re-install again tonight and see what happens.

now my Q to you is: If I made the entire "upload" folder into a zip file then extracted it in my forum root, would that work?

Can you move files from one directory to another in the tool they have you use?
If you can and it was my site, I'd feel more comfortable zipping it up, uploading it to a temp folder to unzip and move the files from there.
It should work, but I've never done it so I can't say for certain.

[deadbolt80]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Can you move files from one directory to another in the tool they have you use?
If you can and it was my site, I'd feel more comfortable zipping it up, uploading it to a temp folder to unzip and move the files from there.
It should work, but I've never done it so I can't say for certain.

Yeah I can move to anywhere i want within my system files. I'll create a folder as you said and extract the "upload" folder in it. then move the folders themselves to the forum root, right?

I'll do that after work tonight... I really apologize for all this mess and trillion q's. Thanks for your help. :up: