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

[deadbolt80]

Hey Dylan,

Long time no talk. I recently updated to 4.1.2 vB and the garage is not working at all. I remember you helped me install it, and i'm not sure where to begin or how you did it...

Any tips would be appreciated. I already uploaded the .xml file for your latest version in my products section.. but I think somewhere in my database transfer to the new server, the language .xml isn't uploaded and it won't let me upload it.

PM me please so we can figure this out.

Thanks for everything.

[venom2124]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

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.

I think it was one specific picture I was trying to upload. It wasn't on my site it was on another site that I'm working as an admin on. I was able to upload the same picture from a different site.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by deadbolt80

Hey Dylan,

Long time no talk. I recently updated to 4.1.2 vB and the garage is not working at all. I remember you helped me install it, and i'm not sure where to begin or how you did it...

Any tips would be appreciated. I already uploaded the .xml file for your latest version in my products section.. but I think somewhere in my database transfer to the new server, the language .xml isn't uploaded and it won't let me upload it.

PM me please so we can figure this out.

Thanks for everything.

Did you install the language file through the language area?

http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...on_script2.htm

Make sure you install it like the images in the instructions. If it doesn't work you can pm me with a temp admin account and I'll work on it.

[cTak]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

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

I tweaked the style a little bit, removed some {vb:stylevar} code and used this to get what I want.

PHP Code:

.alt1, .alt1Active
{
    background: #242424;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    padding: 5px;
    }
.alt2, .alt2Active
{
    background: #141414;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    padding: 5px;
}


html {
    background: #000000;
} 


[cTak]

Feature request.

Dylanblitz,

I like the feature that creates a thread for new vehicles. I also like that you can edit the thread subject and body. BUT, Can you make it so you can use things like {username} and {vehicle} in the subject as well as the body?

I have a thread just for new vehicles, and all I see on the page is thread after thread of the same thing. "A new vehicle has been created in the garage!" I want it to be more specific! Like
"John has added a Corvette to his garage!"

Can you make this change in the next release? Or post how to make the changes to do that?

Thanks!!!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Feature request.

Dylanblitz,

I like the feature that creates a thread for new vehicles. I also like that you can edit the thread subject and body. BUT, Can you make it so you can use things like {username} and {vehicle} in the subject as well as the body?

I have a thread just for new vehicles, and all I see on the page is thread after thread of the same thing. "A new vehicle has been created in the garage!" I want it to be more specific! Like
"John has added a Corvette to his garage!"

Can you make this change in the next release? Or post how to make the changes to do that?

Thanks!!!

I can add it with the next release. If you want to do it for now, change the text in the subject to have the {username} and {vehicle} and then
open includes/garage_func_var.php
Find

$pagetext = str_replace('{vehicle}', $full_veh_link, $pagetext);

After add

$title = str_replace('{username}', $new_veh_user['username'], $title);
$title = str_replace('{vehicle}', $veh_name, $title);

That will show the username and the full vehicle name in the subject. If you want to just display part of the vehicle name you will need to write some code in there to select just the part you want.

[Club XJ]

Installed on 4.1.2 in less than 10 minutes. So far so good.

[cTak]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

I can add it with the next release. If you want to do it for now, change the text in the subject to have the {username} and {vehicle} and then
open includes/garage_func_var.php
Find
After add

That will show the username and the full vehicle name in the subject. If you want to just display part of the vehicle name you will need to write some code in there to select just the part you want.

Thanks! That works perfectly now! Now instead of seeing a page full of threads all with the same boring name over and over, we can easily take a glance at the page and see WHO added WHAT to the garage, and view the ones that spark our interest!

Thanks again!

[cTak]

Well after looking it over, it works but doesn't.

It does show the name and vehicle in the subject title, but, the thread body text is using the same text as the thread subject.

In my admin, I have
title: {username} added their {vehicle} to the garage!
body: {username} has created a new vehicle in the garage. Go check out their {vehicle}!

But the thread shows up as:
title - brian added their 2011 BMW M3 to the garage!
body - brian added their 2011 BMW M3 to the garage!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Well after looking it over, it works but doesn't.


It does show the name and vehicle in the subject title, but, the thread body text is using the same text as the thread subject.

In my admin, I have
title: {username} added their {vehicle} to the garage!
body: {username} has created a new vehicle in the garage. Go check out their {vehicle}!

But the thread shows up as:
title - brian added their 2011 BMW M3 to the garage!
body - brian added their 2011 BMW M3 to the garage!

Hmm, does the code look like this now? I just tried it in my dev and it works

$pagetext = str_replace('{username}', $full_user_link, $vbulletin->options[garage_post_text]);
$pagetext = str_replace('{vehicle}', $full_veh_link, $pagetext);

$title = str_replace('{username}', $new_veh_user['username'], $title);
$title = str_replace('{vehicle}', $veh_name, $title);

$threaddm->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);