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

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

It looks like you didn't import the latest language file. There are missing phrases from newer versions then the original one you had.

For the date, open includes/garage_func_var.php
About line 3368 and 3370 you will see

$latest_vehicles = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT guv.*, guv.date_created AS QueryDate FROM

Change the guv.date_created to guv.date_updated


EDIT:
The dropdown on the left is for the admin to set an image as a front page category's image.

thanks, that seemed to fix it

[cdoyle]

Hi,
Have another question, Right now I have my garage set to old blocks. And on my garage page it shows all the blocks. When I go into the Admin panel, I see the option of block order but how do you change it? Right now everything is listed in the left column? I can't drag it over, or do anything to change it.

I would like to have my blocks side by side, like it is in some of the examples.

Thanks

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Hi,
Have another question, Right now I have my garage set to old blocks. And on my garage page it shows all the blocks. When I go into the Admin panel, I see the option of block order but how do you change it? Right now everything is listed in the left column? I can't drag it over, or do anything to change it.

I would like to have my blocks side by side, like it is in some of the examples.

Thanks

Anyone know how to do this?

[cdoyle]

Anyone out there know?

[cdoyle]

Another Question, the images on forumhome.
I have mine set to 'Random' but it doesn't seem to be actually pulling random images from my garage. I just see the same set of images over and over, just in a different order.

http://www.caraudiocentral.net/forums/

I never see any of the new images I've added to the garage, and I don't have many members with a garage. So I should at least see the new images I added once in awhile.

I'm also still looking for an answer to the question I had above about the blocks too.

I really would like to get my garage all working correctly, it's a great hack.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Hi,
Have another question, Right now I have my garage set to old blocks. And on my garage page it shows all the blocks. When I go into the Admin panel, I see the option of block order but how do you change it? Right now everything is listed in the left column? I can't drag it over, or do anything to change it.

I would like to have my blocks side by side, like it is in some of the examples.

Thanks

Do you get any ajax errors? You should be able to drag and drop the blocks left/right up/down.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Another Question, the images on forumhome.
I have mine set to 'Random' but it doesn't seem to be actually pulling random images from my garage. I just see the same set of images over and over, just in a different order.

http://www.caraudiocentral.net/forums/

I never see any of the new images I've added to the garage, and I don't have many members with a garage. So I should at least see the new images I added once in awhile.

I'm also still looking for an answer to the question I had above about the blocks too.

I really would like to get my garage all working correctly, it's a great hack.

If they are in the database it should select them. I'm doing a basic mysql RAND() selection, so I'm leaving it up to mysql to select them randomly heh.

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Do you get any ajax errors? You should be able to drag and drop the blocks left/right up/down.

I was able to drag them using IE, but in FF you can't move them.
But even after moving them, it made no difference on my garage page. Everything is still in one column?

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

If they are in the database it should select them. I'm doing a basic mysql RAND() selection, so I'm leaving it up to mysql to select them randomly heh.

Mine doesn't seem to be updating, and it almost appears to only be displaying the profile pic of the garage. I don't see any other pics appearing at all.

Is there another setting somewhere for what pics it selects?

[cdoyle]

OK, so after awhile it appears that the blocks rearranged themselves.

But there are still some issues, you can see here
http://www.caraudiocentral.net/forums/garage.php

The latest image block is down too far, it's actually looks like the right column block is pushing it down.

I also noticed that the latest images, are not the latest images. I've uploaded a few (see my garage chrisfromwa) All the shots of the car in red were ones I uploaded the other day. But they never appeared in the latest image.

One last thing I noticed, is the categories, all the totals are 1?

Any ideas?