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

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

I love this mod, but i dont want it for cars. I run a star wars site where my members collect the toys. I would love to use this mod for them to show off their collections, but there are some things that wouldnt make sense on the adding a new vehicle (collection) and viewing the vehicle (collection) i wish i could take off:

-the color question
-mileage
-purchase date
-no year
-no timeslips
-and just have one of the model/make dropdowns

Is there anyway at all i could do this as maybe a custom non-vehicle garage? I'm not a coder so i dont wanna screw anything up. It would probably be really useful for others like me that want to use this to display a collection.

Thank you!!

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

any help with my question??

I'm sorry about that, I must have missed it.
You can remove all the fields you mentioned besides the make/model. Those two are tied in too much to remove one without screwing up a lot of stuff. it would be possible only if you tweaked some of the code, kind of messy though.
Timeslips can be turned off through the ACP settings. Garage Page Settings

If you want to give me temp admin I can go in there and remove the fields and change any of the language you want.

[thebucky84]

So i did everything right to the " T ".. but when I import the xml (which loads just fine), I click on my forum homepage and get this meesage:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/garage_plugin_func.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line 84

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/68/6995168/html/includes/garage_plugin_func.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/68/6995168/html/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line 84


once I delete the plugin the site goes back to normal. Any idea?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by thebucky84

So i did everything right to the " T ".. but when I import the xml (which loads just fine), I click on my forum homepage and get this meesage:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/garage_plugin_func.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line 84

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/content/68/6995168/html/includes/garage_plugin_func.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/68/6995168/html/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line 84



once I delete the plugin the site goes back to normal. Any idea?

It looks like the includes/garage_plugin_func.php file didn't get moved over to the server.
It should be at <your forum directory>/includes/garage_plugin_func.php

[thebucky84]

well i got it to work now. When i click on the garage tab i get this:


Not Found

The requested URL /garage.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at xxxxxx.com Port 80


Then when i enter in http://www.mysite.com/vgb/ (the garage.php file is in the sub folder "vgb") under admincp>Settings>options>Garage General Settings>Garage Files URL I get this:



Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/xx/xxxxxx/html/vbg/garage.php on line 118

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/xx/xxxxxxx/html/vbg/garage.php on line 118


any clue?

[thebucky84]

bump for help

[maupz]

On line 158 oin garage.php what saids?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by thebucky84

well i got it to work now. When i click on the garage tab i get this:


Not Found

The requested URL /garage.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at xxxxxxxx.com Port 80


Then when i enter in http://www.mysite.com/vgb/ (the garage.php file is in the sub folder "vgb") under admincp>Settings>options>Garage General Settings>Garage Files URL I get this:



Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxxhtmlpathxxxx/vbg/garage.php on line 118

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/xxxxhtmlpathxxxx/vbg/garage.php on line 118


any clue?

EDIT:
Oh sorry, just read it again. You also need to update the garage_directory.php file with the absolute path to your forum root.

So open the file and change

PHP Code:

//$forum_directory = 'C:/doc_root/www/domain/forums/'; 


to whatever the path is, something like

PHP Code:

$forum_directory = '/home/xxxxhtmlpathxxxx/forums/'; 


btw, might want to edit the post and remove your domain name and directory structure

[MotMann]

Have someone german phrases?

[thebucky84]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

EDIT:
Oh sorry, just read it again. You also need to update the garage_directory.php file with the absolute path to your forum root.

So open the file and change

PHP Code:

//$forum_directory = 'C:/doc_root/www/domain/forums/'; 


to whatever the path is, something like

PHP Code:

$forum_directory = '/home/xxxxhtmlpathxxxx/forums/'; 


btw, might want to edit the post and remove your domain name and directory structure

thanks for the heads up! lol


well I've changed the directory already. Line 24

PHP Code:

$forum_directory = '/home/account/public_html/forums/'; 


now there is another line underneath the direcory thats the 'C/doc_root/xxxxxx (sorry at work and obviously cant see my directory file lol) do i need to change that line as well?

I have the directory pointed where I need it to. What exactly do i need to put in the URL block under the garage settings in the admincp?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by thebucky84

thanks for the heads up! lol


well I've changed the directory already. Line 24

PHP Code:

$forum_directory = '/home/account/public_html/forums/'; 


now there is another line underneath the direcory thats the 'C/doc_root/xxxxxx (sorry at work and obviously cant see my directory file lol) do i need to change that line as well?

I have the directory pointed where I need it to. What exactly do i need to put in the URL block under the garage settings in the admincp?

You only needto uncomment the forum directory and modify the variable to the path of your forum.

The Garage URL field should have the url of the garage files. Like http://www.yoursite.com/vgb/