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Drive Thru Online ? Garage

Overview

DTO Garage is a free product allowing all members of a site to show off their car, truck, motorcycle or other powersports toy. Site owners can easily adapt the section and subsection titles to suit the attributes to the site's focus. Images are stored locally preventing broken links and over limit displays common with images linked offsite. Drive Thru Online has made upgrading to the paid version of DTO Garage Plus easy, all user data stored in DTO Garage is retained for a seamless transition.

For users, management of their vBulletin garage is conveniently handled through their user control panel. The intuitive user interface encourages even the most challenged to create a compelling Garage. Images are added via a wizard from either the users own computer or a specified URL. Thumbnails are dynamically created with high-resolution images displayed in a navigable Lytebox. Users can designate whether a garage is visible to the rest of the site members or hidden until they have time to polish the information and give it the debut it deserves. Other users can view garages using interactive pop-up menus embedded in each post or through the Garage owner's profile.

Key Features

vBulletin Options-based customization of information collected and presented in garages
User management of garages via User Control Panel
Simple-to-use image uploads per garage
Lytebox presentation of high resolution garage images
bbCode supported in information areas
Additional image placement in information area supported
Dynamic presentation of garages in postbit and user profile
Embedded full featured searchable and indexed Help
Fully documented
Fully supported

Language Translation
As of version 1.1.3 DTO Garage has not been fully phrased and only supports English. With a future release it is our intent to offer a fully phrased version to support language translation of the product. When the fully phrased version is available we will provide documentation and tools to speed translations of the product for use on your site. We will also encourage those who have performed a translation to contribute it for distribution to other members. Any contributed languages will be included with this thread and credit given to the author. Site owners are free to translate the product either in its current state or future releases as they see fit given that the note found in the following Upgrade section is followed when upgrading. While Drive Thru Online will provide information to translators regarding the context of wording we can not provide support to facilitate the actual translation itself.

Compatibility

Fully compatible with vBulletin 3.6.8 through vBulletin 3.8.x
PHP 5.X or later (compiled with GD support) and MySQL 5.X or later is required.

Upgrading from a previous version of DTO Garage

Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
Note: If you have customized the DTO Garage templates in a previous release it is recommended that you make a copy of your changes, revert to the version of templates included with the new release and migrate your changes into the new version's templates. Failure to do this may cause the product to operate improperly and/or support new features that may have been added to the product.
If you use a custom style for your site you may have to modify the garage templates. For more information refer to this how-to written to address the most common modifications required.

Installation & Configuration for vB 3.6.x through vb 3.8.x

Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.

Alternatively, you can also access documentation by visiting our web site under the Support tab.

Copyright & Licensing

DTO Garage is copyright protected by Drive Thru Online, Inc.
You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.
In addition, the supplied copyright notice must be maintained.

Other Drive Thru Online Products

DTO Garage and Garage Plus vBadvanced Modules ? free vBadvanced modules for Garage and Garage Plus
DTO Garage Plus ? paid version with vBSEO sitemap generator add-ons, usergroup permissions, and advanced search features. Click here for a comparison of Garage and Garage Plus.
DTO Clubs, ShowCase, and Vendor Tools - paid products designed to grow your membership and create revenue from your site

Support

We will provide support in this thread on an as-needed basis to members that have marked this modification as Installed. Additional support resources can be found on our site under the Support tab.

Release and Version History
1.1.3 - October 7, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

New Features

Changed orientation of images in garage display from vertical to horizontal orientation for cleaner display.
Modified index page to provide paged display of most recently added garages.
Added error handling for upload of unsupported image formats when adding a picture to a garage.

Fixes

Added caching of garage-related templates for use in private message postbit display.

1.1.2 - August 21, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

Note: This release did not include updated documentation to reflect the new features below. As this is an interim release we will be updating documentation with the next 1.2.0 release of Garage and Garage Plus.

New Features

Garage index page - index page accessible from breadcrumb when viewing a members garage. Displays a random selection of up to 25 member garages.
Navbar menu - Added "My Garage" link when user is logged in
Navbar menu - Added "Garages" to take user to garage index page
With a garage index page member garages are no longer display in a new browser window (the only exception is if you preview your own garage when managing it).

Fixes

Users currently not logged in are prevented from managing or adding a garage.
When using quick reply the Garage link is shown in the user's postbit given that the user has a visible garage configured.

1.1.1 - July 6, 2009
Fix release

Correct alignment of Garage/Garage Plus navbar pop-up menu.
SQL error when rendering Garage postbit links for guest users - no longer attempts to render a link for Guest users.
Corrected issue for sites using database table prefixes where a SQL error was generated when attempting to insert an image into a garage.

1.1.0 - June 19, 2009
Initial release

mferguson · #**272** 09-07-2009, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Don't you want everyone else to have this information.. I'm sure everyone has at least one custom skin.

*edit*
I guess you dont want people using my fix for their skin.

Each skin is always done a little differently so like you mention a fix for your site may not really work well for another site.

Mark

DaSpyda · #**273** 09-08-2009, 01:12 AM

I updated to 3.8.4 and, all of a sudden, loged in Users cannot access others' Garages, nor even their own.

Thoughts?

mferguson · #**274** 09-08-2009, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaSpyda

I updated to 3.8.4 and, all of a sudden, loged in Users cannot access others' Garages, nor even their own.

Thoughts?

I've not seen an issue like this before. Did any of the Garage plugins get disabled during the upgrade?

Feel free to contact me via PM with URL information and I'll take a look to see if I see anything obvious.

Thanks!

Mark

Gamelobby · #**275** 09-08-2009, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Don't you want everyone else to have this information.. I'm sure everyone has at least one custom skin.

*edit*
I guess you dont want people using my fix for their skin.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mferguson

Each skin is always done a little differently so like you mention a fix for your site may not really work well for another site.

Mark

Yep.. looks & works perfect on ALL 10 skins.!!
Thanks a lot.!

mferguson · #**276** 09-08-2009, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Yep.. looks & works perfect on ALL 10 skins.!!
Thanks a lot.!

You're welcome!

Mark

Gamelobby · #**277** 09-08-2009, 05:42 PM

Suggestion..
To be able to add a video or two into the garage.

Maybe above the History area.

YouTube, Photobucket, etc.

mferguson · #**278** 09-08-2009, 06:28 PM

If you have BBCode to support YouTube, etc. and you have it enabled for use outside of posts you can use them in the text areas of a Garage now. AME is not currently supported in text areas though since it uses something other than BBCode to render media inline.

If you view our help there should be some information on using BBCode in text areas.

Hope this helps!

Mark

Kolbi · #**279** 09-08-2009, 08:08 PM

I found a little issue. The template: memberinfo_block_dto_garage is uncached.

Please add following plugin:
Attachment 104195

mferguson · #**280** 09-09-2009, 02:46 AM

Rather than creating another plugin which will force cache this template even when not needed you can just edit the DTO Garage Cache Templates plugin and replace its contents with the following:

PHP Code:


			
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array(

            'dto_garage_navbar',

));



if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' OR 

        THIS_SCRIPT == 'showpost')

    {

        $globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array(

            // garage popup menu 

            'dto_garage_popup_menu',

            'dto_garage_popup_menubit',

                'dto_garage_postbit_userinfo',

        ));

    }

    else if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'member')

    {

        $globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array(

            'dto_garage_profile',

            'dto_garage_profile_bit',

                'memberinfo_block_dto_garage',

        ));

    }

    else if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'usercp' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'dto_garage' OR 

THIS_SCRIPT == 'private')

    {

        $globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array(

            'dto_garage_usercp',

        ));

    }

As you see above the memberinfo_block_dto_garage is only cached if being called by member.php.

I'll make sure that this update makes it into our code base so it makes it into future releases.

Thanks!

Mark

DaSpyda · #**281** 09-09-2009, 03:12 AM

That did it for my issue - all users can now access The Garage.

From the looks of things, it was an issue with a vBadvanced configuration with the Greeting Module in CMPS. A Recent Thread block started showing up, too, and a fix was applied.

Thanks, Mark, for hanging in there.

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