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

[Trumpetrhapsody]

On my forum when you put that gallery block on the main forum homepage set to "under who's online" it wedges it between Today's Events and Forum Statistics. Would be nice to be all the way under in it's own block.

Also would be good to touch up the looks of when you have it showing "All vehicles" in the postbit, I think they're a bit far apart, maybe need some sort of <HR> above them to separate from the rest of the info, maybe a header title or something?

EDIT: Somehow updating to this latest version has messed up something in my vb user profiles, some code is showing haha. Oh and I'm still getting 500 server errors trying to upload images, and it's very buggy in IE8.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

On my forum when you put that gallery block on the main forum homepage set to "under who's online" it wedges it between Today's Events and Forum Statistics. Would be nice to be all the way under in it's own block.

Also would be good to touch up the looks of when you have it showing "All vehicles" in the postbit, I think they're a bit far apart, maybe need some sort of <HR> above them to separate from the rest of the info, maybe a header title or something?

EDIT: Somehow updating to this latest version has messed up something in my vb user profiles, some code is showing haha. Oh and I'm still getting 500 server errors trying to upload images, and it's very buggy in IE8.

The WGO box doesn't have a template hook underneath it unfortunately. I'll see if I can get it into the ad location down there in the next version.

If you have an option to display all vehicles in the postbit then it's not OOB code. That was developed by a user. I incorporated it into the core product but it works differently now.

What kind of code is showing in the user profile? It's probably the new postbit data. It's stored in a custom profile field, but it's only visible to the admin.

With the image error, does it show you any code errors or just a 500 page?

[Trumpetrhapsody]

My mistake, that was a mod for the garage, I've disabled it for now but the code in the profile, and breaking of the PM system remains.

This shows in some user profiles:

About FlatBlack

<div class="imlinks">
<div class="popupmenu vehicleaction">
<a class="popupctrl" href="#"><strong>Vehicles</strong></a>
<ul class="popupbody popuphover vehicleaction_body">
<li class="left"><a href="http://www.nwamotorsports.net/garage_vehicle.

And I get a 500 Internal Server error when viewing PM's and trying to upload an image. No code errors, just the page:

0
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

With "500 Internal Server Error" in the tab.

EDIT: Fixed the PM issue by fully uninstalling that modification (was Bzopi's). Now just the image upload issue is the last crippling problem.

And yeah it seems like the:

{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos5} or {vb:raw ad_location.board_below_whats_going_on}

Hooks would've worked better. Guess i'll just move it manually for now if I can, just looks wonky.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

My mistake, that was a mod for the garage, I've disabled it for now but the code in the profile, and breaking of the PM system remains.

This shows in some user profiles:




And I get a 500 Internal Server error when viewing PM's and trying to upload an image. No code errors, just the page:


With "500 Internal Server Error" in the tab.

EDIT: Fixed the PM issue by fully uninstalling that modification (was Bzopi's). Now just the image upload issue is the last crippling problem.

And yeah it seems like the:

{vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos5} or {vb:raw ad_location.board_below_whats_going_on}

Hooks would've worked better. Guess i'll just move it manually for now if I can, just looks wonky.

Could you pm me a temp account that has access to create vehicles? I'll see if I can find out the problem.

The pos5 hook is still part of the block. I'll try and attach to the below_whats_going_on later, it would be the best bet since it's outside of the WGO box but it's not a hook so you can't just attach to it unfortunately.

bszopi's addon hasn't been updated in a while since I incorporated it, there was probably some conflict between the addon and changed code in the garage. Glad that's worked out though

[Trumpetrhapsody]

Actually it's still giving issues, that one user has that code back again, and now his postbit even shows this:

<div class="imlinks"> <div class="popupmenu vehicleaction"> <a class="popupctrl" href="#"><strong>Vehicles</strong></a> <ul class="popupbody popuphover vehicleaction_body"> <li class="left"><a href="http://www.nwamotorsports.net/garage_vehicle.

I'll PM you an account. Thanks!

EDIT: Fixed that user's postbit and profile issue by using the garage's "rebuild postbit" feature. Must have been a conflict between your new system and bzopi's old one. Now just the image uploading issue remains!

DoubleEdit:

I fixed the position of the forumhome gallery bar, thusly:

Edit your ForumHome template, find and move {vb:raw template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos5} Two </div>'s down.
Then open up the product xml (vb_pro_garage), find template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos3 and change the 3 to a 5.
Now re-import the product xml you just edited.

As far as I know nothing is using the 5 position, so it should be fine. Works and looks great on my board (could use a little padding underneath though). This should work till Dylan gets it fixed properly in the next release.

[Trumpetrhapsody]

Image issue resolved! My PHP memory limit was set to 8MB, increased it to 64MB and now everything is working like it should.

One style problem i'm still having though, in the forumHome gallery bar if you have a really wide pic it'll shove everything off the screen to the right. Looks like it needs a width constraint along with the height limit.

[venom2124]

Okay keep getting the following message

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2797]

I'm also getting an error that my picture ,which is JPG format, Not a supported image type (jpg, gif, png).

Would like to see if we can resolve the issue.

[cTak]

Dylan,

How can you edit colors?

I have been trying to edit the colors when viewing garage.php. My forum has a black background and white text. I read one of your posts and you said to edit .alt1 and .alt2 in garage_css, I did that and saved the CSS, but it did not change anything when viewing the website.

What am I missing??

Thanks!!

Also need to edit the background of the "slideshow" area on garage.php

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Dylan,

How can you edit colors?

I have been trying to edit the colors when viewing garage.php. My forum has a black background and white text. I read one of your posts and you said to edit .alt1 and .alt2 in garage_css, I did that and saved the CSS, but it did not change anything when viewing the website.

What am I missing??

Thanks!!

Also need to edit the background of the "slideshow" area on garage.php

Are you sure you edited the template in the right style? It should match the style of the forum. PM me a link and I'll take a look. If the garage requires an account to view it send me one with access as well

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by venom2124

Okay keep getting the following message

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2797]

I'm also getting an error that my picture ,which is JPG format, Not a supported image type (jpg, gif, png).

Would like to see if we can resolve the issue.

Is this on one specific jpg or any jpg you try and upload? It looks like I see a bunch of vehicles with images on your site so I'm not sure.