Major Additions - DTO Garage - free garage features for all your members (vB 3.8.X)

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

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
4. 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.
5. 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

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. 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]

Chris,
Thanks for your post. I've addressed your questions below. Let me know what additional questions you may have. Thanks!

Mark

Originally Posted by Za4a Tuner

question 1:
Is it possible, to allow more than 3 pictures per categorie? I'd like to allow something about 4 or 5 picture in every categorie like "under the hood" and "interior".
Is there a way, to have there an option at the acp to set a number of allowed pictures? (May be in a future version???)
If not, is there a easy way to set a higher number of allowed pictures per plug-in or php-code changes?

There are currently no plans to support more images per section since our ShowCase product is really to be more flexible in this respect as well as providing the ability to customize all of the information you share in a garage or whatever other interest your site focuses on.

[QUOTE=Za4a Tune
question 2:
Can you do an option in the ACP to turn the "automatic appearing links" (postbit, navbar, memberinfo, ...) ON or OFF?
This would be nice
[/quote]

If this was done there would be no easy way to navigate back to the garage index page or jump to the member's other garages. Currently these are displayed more for navigation purposes and to provide consistency with the rest of vBulletin user interfaces so that it integrates more tightly into the rest of a vBulletin community. To date this is the first time a ACP option to turn on/off this information has been requested.

Originally Posted by Za4a Tune

question 3:
I don't use SEO.
In your GOLD-version SEO is listet. Can this version be used WITHOUT having SEO installed?

Yes. The Garage Plus product can be used with or without vBSEO. Here is a list of the differences between Garage and Garage Plus.

Originally Posted by Za4a Tune

question 4:
What currency do have?
The GOLD-version is about 95.- xx?

The currency is in US Dollars. We accept payment via Paypal.

Originally Posted by Za4a Tune

Some found "bugs":
vBulletin is full xhtml-valid.
Your add-on even not!
But i think, an xhtml-valide code can easy be done.
For example, you should

• replace <br> by <br />
• close every img-tag by using " />" at the end of every img-code, like: [....]/1/1000t.jpg" />
• sometimes you have double specifications like : <td align="left" class="alt1" align="center">
• in the tag >fieldset> the attribute "width" can't be used
• some "tr-tags" are missed between "table" and "td"
• insted of "<hr>" u shuold use "<hr />" (if the tag isn't closed by an "/hr"-Tag)
• hardcoded "phrases" -> fully phrased out is better for translations (i know, you will do this in future version)
• ...

Since we have been quite surprised by the amount of interest in our products outside of the US our next version of Garage Plus will be fully phrased and we will also address XHTML compliance. That said most browsers will render our products well now without XHTML compliance if the DOCTYPE in vBulletin is not set to a strict XHTML DTD. Regardless its something that we'll be addressing in a release sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by Za4a Tune

I think, i will use your add-on in my board. To use the free or the gold-version depends on what feauture can be made real, and using xhtml.

kr Chris

If you have other pre-sales related questions I would recommend joining our support forums and we can address them there.

Thanks again for your questions!

Best regards,

Mark

[Za4a Tuner]

thanks for your quick answer!
i just have a longer look in the free version, and if i decide to use it or have further questions, i'll register @ your support-board.

do you have a dateline for the "fixed"-version?

[mferguson]

We just released the 1.1.3 version so I expect it will be sometime in November.

Thanks!

Mark

[Afresh07]

Im getting an error everytime i log in and press usercp i get this message how to i take care of this.

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error

I don't understand. what to do anymore. I went over and over the installation and im lost.

PLEASE HELP

wheeltrends.com/forums

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Afresh07

Im getting an error everytime i log in and press usercp i get this message how to i take care of this.

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error

I don't understand. what to do anymore. I went over and over the installation and im lost.

PLEASE HELP

wheeltrends.com/forums

If you will mark the DTO Garage as being installed and then PM me with your email contact information I will be glad to assist.

Thanks!

Mark

[kp_fkp]

very nice , installed
thx

[mferguson]

Thanks for installing and glad you like it!

Mark

[Michael Biddle]

Call me blind, but I am not seeing how I can add more than one vehicle per garage. Any way to extend this?

Sorry if I missed it, I tried searching, but you know how that goes.

[mferguson]

Michael,

The free version of DTO Garage only supports one garage per user. Garage Plus, our paid version, allows you to set up any number of garages on a usergroup-by-usergroup permission basis. Garage Plus also includes a number of other features such as CRRs, sitemap add-ons, and search/browse features. For a complete list of the differences click here.

Thanks!

Mark

[Kolbi]

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