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

[customcolor]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

It depends on the mod. Can you give me the link to it? I'll download it and see what I can do.

its not a mod really...just a 3rd party hit counter that i added from http://www.statcounter.com/ its a good free (up to the last 500 hits logged more logged hits cost money) hit counter/tracker i have seen in a wile.

i believe if you click on the numbers on the hit counter you can see our stats as a guest......to see it live on our site go to... http://www.foxvalleyreefclub.com/forums/forum.php (the garage has ben renamed as tank bios)

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by customcolor

its not a mod really...just a 3rd party hit counter that i added from http://www.statcounter.com/ its a good free (up to the last 500 hits logged more logged hits cost money) hit counter/tracker i have seen in a wile.

i believe if you click on the numbers on the hit counter you can see our stats as a guest......to see it live on our site go to... http://www.foxvalleyreefclub.com/forums/forum.php (the garage has ben renamed as tank bios)

Do you have a test account I can use? I looked at it in IE7 and refreshed 10 times without getting the error. It might be something else that only registered users see.
You can also log out and view the garage and see if it still gives the error. I see the page counter and it's not giving me an error as unregistered.

[AllenMead]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Make sure you are doing it in the right location, Languages and Phrases and not Products.

Here are the install instructions
http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...ion_script.htm

I need to update the screenshots but the process is still the same

Sorted,.. Thanks for the pointer!.

[customcolor]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Do you have a test account I can use? I looked at it in IE7 and refreshed 10 times without getting the error. It might be something else that only registered users see.
You can also log out and view the garage and see if it still gives the error. I see the page counter and it's not giving me an error as unregistered.

try ie8...i just tried it with ie8 as a guest and no luck getting in

[Dylanblitz]

hmm, I'm still not seeing a problem with IE8, looked it up on my other machine that has Windows 7 and refreshed 10 times, no error.

EDIT:
Can you PM me a list of the mods you have installed? I'll take a look and see if there's anything I think would conflict.

[customcolor]

u have pm

[Martyn1983]

Hiya,

Good to see this for VB4

New additions to my garage have images pulling correctly, but none of the old images for the old cars are working (yet)

www.fiat-scotland.com (garage link is in the top navbar)

I've tried going into settings and rebuilding the images/orphaned images and get the following (I get more than this, Ive just copied for a sample)

Rebuilding Images - Attach ID 0 to 25

Warning: imageistruecolor(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 465

Warning: imagecreate() [function.imagecreate]: Invalid image dimensions in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 469

Warning: imagecopyresampled(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 477

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 482

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 494
Remade thumb image images/garage/attach/6/6/9/garage_vehicle-1-12477045091_thumb.jpg

Warning: imageistruecolor(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 532

Any help appreciated

[Dylanblitz]

What version of GD do you have? You can tell by looking at your phpinfo in the ACP.
It sounds like you have an old version of GD but it's trying to use GD2.

EDIT:
Also, can you check your images directory (images/garage/attach) and tell me if all the images are in there or if they are separated out into their own folders?

Originally Posted by Martyn1983

Hiya,

Good to see this for VB4

New additions to my garage have images pulling correctly, but none of the old images for the old cars are working (yet)

www.fiat-scotland.com (garage link is in the top navbar)

I've tried going into settings and rebuilding the images/orphaned images and get the following (I get more than this, Ive just copied for a sample)

Rebuilding Images - Attach ID 0 to 25

Warning: imageistruecolor(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 465

Warning: imagecreate() [function.imagecreate]: Invalid image dimensions in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 469

Warning: imagecopyresampled(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 477

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 482

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 494
Remade thumb image images/garage/attach/6/6/9/garage_vehicle-1-12477045091_thumb.jpg

Warning: imageistruecolor(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 532

Any help appreciated

[Martyn1983]

GD / GD2?

The images..they're in the same directory, I checked that against an earlier post you made in this thread.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Martyn1983

GD / GD2?

The images..they're in the same directory, I checked that against an earlier post you made in this thread.

Go to the ACP
Maintenance->View PHP Info

About 1/3 of the way down you'll see the gd info with the GD Version.

As far as the images, they need to be split into their own directories depending on the owners userid. That is the most likely reason for the errors.

Run the attached script from your acp, it should move all the ones it can match up. You might have to run it multiple times if it times out.

It will remove the old image so you might want to backup the attach folder.