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

[kether1]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

You would have to change the database fields and some of the code that formats the numbers. It might be better to hide the fields and add a text field through a plugin. That file I sent you make sense?
You can do the same thing to add fields to the timeslip record as well.
In a couple versions all the custom fields will be done a lot easier through the ACP.

Thanks for the response! I had some trouble with the video field. Seems to give me a blank page (white page) when I submit the new entry. I have not had time to debug why that is just yet. I am trying to understand how it creates a plugin, but I am not really that good at code, so it takes a long time to find what I am looking for. I am learning though - thanks!!

Regarding: "It might be better to hide the fields and add a text field through a plugin."

I would still like to be able to use the cool sort feature you have on the timeslips page. If I hide the original fields and add new fields, would they still sort or (and I expect this is the case) would they not show up in the sort fields area?

I really look forward to being able to add custom fields in the ACP! That will be a great addition.

Kether

[insanewhip]

When i download the xml it shuts down my site and gives me an error code. As soon as i uninstall my site is back. I tryed installing lanuage file first, then first vb pro garage. Any Idea's why?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by kether1

Thanks for the response! I had some trouble with the video field. Seems to give me a blank page (white page) when I submit the new entry. I have not had time to debug why that is just yet. I am trying to understand how it creates a plugin, but I am not really that good at code, so it takes a long time to find what I am looking for. I am learning though - thanks!!

Regarding: "It might be better to hide the fields and add a text field through a plugin."

I would still like to be able to use the cool sort feature you have on the timeslips page. If I hide the original fields and add new fields, would they still sort or (and I expect this is the case) would they not show up in the sort fields area?

I really look forward to being able to add custom fields in the ACP! That will be a great addition.

Kether

I sent you a pm about the error.
Yes, if you hide the fields then you can't use the sort anymore. You could modify the file and the templates to get it to work but I don't know if that would be too much for you want to do.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by insanewhip

When i download the xml it shuts down my site and gives me an error code. As soon as i uninstall my site is back. I tryed installing lanuage file first, then first vb pro garage. Any Idea's why?

What error is it giving you? You should install the product first and then the language, but even the other way around shouldn't cause errors.

[insanewhip]

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/garage_func_var.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/forum.php(78) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/i/n/s/insanewhips/html/includes/garage_func_var.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/i/n/s/insanewhips/html/forum.php(78) : eval()'d code on line 4

This is the error i get

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by insanewhip

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/garage_func_var.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/forum.php(78) : eval()'d code on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/i/n/s/insanewhips/html/includes/garage_func_var.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/i/n/s/insanewhips/html/forum.php(78) : eval()'d code on line 4


This is the error i get

Looks like you didn't upload all the files in the upload folder. When all is said and done you should have a file called garage_func_var.php in the includes folder and the script can't find it.

[insanewhip]

includes folder in my root? I uploaded the xml folder, i cant manually upload any files in the "upload" folder.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by insanewhip

includes folder in my root? I uploaded the xml folder, i cant manually upload any files in the "upload" folder.

All the files in my upload folder need to be uploaded through ftp to the forum root while maintaining the folder structure. After you upload the files you install the product xml and then the language xml.

[kether1]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

...In a couple versions all the custom fields will be done a lot easier through the ACP.

Is this still in the works? I have tried to edit the fields and add new fields with plugins, but would really love to just visit the ACP and set up my fields to work as expected. It seems, for all my efforts, I am just unable to get it where I would like it to use on a live site. I hope this is still in the works because I love this modification. Really nice work.

Kether

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by kether1

Is this still in the works? I have tried to edit the fields and add new fields with plugins, but would really love to just visit the ACP and set up my fields to work as expected. It seems, for all my efforts, I am just unable to get it where I would like it to use on a live site. I hope this is still in the works because I love this modification. Really nice work.

Kether

If you want, send me a pm with the fields you want to add and they type for them, any selection fields let me know the values. I'll create the plugin for you.