Major Additions - DTO Garage - free garage features for all your members (vB 3.8.X)

Drive Thru Online ? Garage

Overview

DTO Garage is a free product allowing all members of a site to show off their car, truck, motorcycle or other powersports toy. Site owners can easily adapt the section and subsection titles to suit the attributes to the site's focus. Images are stored locally preventing broken links and over limit displays common with images linked offsite. Drive Thru Online has made upgrading to the paid version of DTO Garage Plus easy, all user data stored in DTO Garage is retained for a seamless transition.

For users, management of their vBulletin garage is conveniently handled through their user control panel. The intuitive user interface encourages even the most challenged to create a compelling Garage. Images are added via a wizard from either the users own computer or a specified URL. Thumbnails are dynamically created with high-resolution images displayed in a navigable Lytebox. Users can designate whether a garage is visible to the rest of the site members or hidden until they have time to polish the information and give it the debut it deserves. Other users can view garages using interactive pop-up menus embedded in each post or through the Garage owner's profile.

Key Features

• vBulletin Options-based customization of information collected and presented in garages
• User management of garages via User Control Panel
• Simple-to-use image uploads per garage
• Lytebox presentation of high resolution garage images
• bbCode supported in information areas
• Additional image placement in information area supported
• Dynamic presentation of garages in postbit and user profile
• Embedded full featured searchable and indexed Help
• Fully documented
• Fully supported

Language Translation
As of version 1.1.3 DTO Garage has not been fully phrased and only supports English. With a future release it is our intent to offer a fully phrased version to support language translation of the product. When the fully phrased version is available we will provide documentation and tools to speed translations of the product for use on your site. We will also encourage those who have performed a translation to contribute it for distribution to other members. Any contributed languages will be included with this thread and credit given to the author. Site owners are free to translate the product either in its current state or future releases as they see fit given that the note found in the following Upgrade section is followed when upgrading. While Drive Thru Online will provide information to translators regarding the context of wording we can not provide support to facilitate the actual translation itself.

Compatibility

• Fully compatible with vBulletin 3.6.8 through vBulletin 3.8.x
• PHP 5.X or later (compiled with GD support) and MySQL 5.X or later is required.

Upgrading from a previous version of DTO Garage

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
4. Note: If you have customized the DTO Garage templates in a previous release it is recommended that you make a copy of your changes, revert to the version of templates included with the new release and migrate your changes into the new version's templates. Failure to do this may cause the product to operate improperly and/or support new features that may have been added to the product.
5. If you use a custom style for your site you may have to modify the garage templates. For more information refer to this how-to written to address the most common modifications required.

Installation & Configuration for vB 3.6.x through vb 3.8.x

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
   
   Alternatively, you can also access documentation by visiting our web site under the Support tab.

Copyright & Licensing

• DTO Garage is copyright protected by Drive Thru Online, Inc.
• You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
• Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.
• In addition, the supplied copyright notice must be maintained.

Other Drive Thru Online Products

• DTO Garage and Garage Plus vBadvanced Modules ? free vBadvanced modules for Garage and Garage Plus
• DTO Garage Plus ? paid version with vBSEO sitemap generator add-ons, usergroup permissions, and advanced search features. Click here for a comparison of Garage and Garage Plus.
• DTO Clubs, ShowCase, and Vendor Tools - paid products designed to grow your membership and create revenue from your site

Support

We will provide support in this thread on an as-needed basis to members that have marked this modification as Installed. Additional support resources can be found on our site under the Support tab.

Release and Version History
1.1.3 - October 7, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

New Features

• Changed orientation of images in garage display from vertical to horizontal orientation for cleaner display.
• Modified index page to provide paged display of most recently added garages.
• Added error handling for upload of unsupported image formats when adding a picture to a garage.

Fixes

• Added caching of garage-related templates for use in private message postbit display.

1.1.2 - August 21, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

Note: This release did not include updated documentation to reflect the new features below. As this is an interim release we will be updating documentation with the next 1.2.0 release of Garage and Garage Plus.

New Features

• Garage index page - index page accessible from breadcrumb when viewing a members garage. Displays a random selection of up to 25 member garages.
• Navbar menu - Added "My Garage" link when user is logged in
• Navbar menu - Added "Garages" to take user to garage index page
• With a garage index page member garages are no longer display in a new browser window (the only exception is if you preview your own garage when managing it).

Fixes

• Users currently not logged in are prevented from managing or adding a garage.
• When using quick reply the Garage link is shown in the user's postbit given that the user has a visible garage configured.

1.1.1 - July 6, 2009
Fix release

• Correct alignment of Garage/Garage Plus navbar pop-up menu.
• SQL error when rendering Garage postbit links for guest users - no longer attempts to render a link for Guest users.
• Corrected issue for sites using database table prefixes where a SQL error was generated when attempting to insert an image into a garage.

1.1.0 - June 19, 2009
Initial release

[gnatster]

Originally Posted by mferguson

PS - I'm currently traveling and will do my best to follow up to any reply you make while I still have Internet access.

It may be until Sunday until Mark has access, possibly Saturday evening.

Thanks for your patience on this, we will have it resolved.

[Kolbi]

Some problem like me, but the increbible thing is, that in some thread the garage link is there
Only in some threads there is the bug.

[devilsown]

should i get a blank page for this page?
http://www.grandprixforums.net/dto_g...?do=viewgarage

[Kyrasis6]

PHP 5.X or later (compiled with GD support) and MySQL 5.X or later is required.

Crap, my server doesn't have php 5.0 or MySQL 5.0 installed. Any chance of increased compatability with older versions (4.0?) in the near future? I guess I'll have to start bugging my web host to upgrade his servers since we're on first name basis, lol.

[kirkmkiv]

Great job, I like where this is headed as I run automotive forums.

[MrNase]

Originally Posted by devilsown

should i get a blank page for this page?
http://www.grandprixforums.net/dto_g...?do=viewgarage

You shouldn't but I get a blank page as well. I tried it on two different servers.

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Is only the } at the end of the code different?

Now working perfectly.
Demo: http://www.2-wheel-planet.de/aprilia....html#post8452

Sorry for the delay in replying to this and other recent posts. I've just returned from a vacation with my family and have not had Internet access for the past two days.

As for the code change there was a permission check that had apparently crept in during a product file update from our source control system. This was from our Garage Plus product. I removed this permission check and delivered this in the plugin download above.

Again, I apologize for the delay in responding to the additional questions posted.

Best regards,

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

I have a little question. In the template "dto_garage_popup_menu"

<if condition="$use_username_in_link">
<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[xs_garage] </phrase>
<else />
Garage 
</if>

I tried this an always "Garage" appears.
The fact that you can?t edit the phrase $vbphrase[xs_garage] (it?s always ?{1}?s Garage) doesn?t makes it senseless?
Wouldn?t it better then instead of Garage would appear {1}?s Garage in the Postbit?

<if condition="$use_username_in_link">
<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[xs_garage] </phrase>
</if>

Doesn?t works? Why?
but

<if condition="$use_username_in_link">
<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[xs_garage] </phrase>
<else />
<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[xs_garage] </phrase>
</if>

Does what I want. It displays the phrase for example Kolbi?s Garage

Or don?t I understand this code...

$dto_garage_popup_menu is actually a variable that, when referenced, in a template contains the needed html to render the pop-up menu. Currently the $use_username_in_link is not being set as it is for future expansion hence why it wasn't displaying as you would like. The reason I had selected the "Garage" link approach in postbit was because the post was already "owned" by the user so I felt that using the user's name next to the link so that it would look like "Mark's Garage" would be redundant. Also, since we found that there are often long usernames on sites we didn't want to create a visual problem with rendering a long username inside of the postbit since it was already displayed once.

Hope this helps shed a little light on the reason behind the madness

Best regards,

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Is there a comment function or a rate system in DTO Garage?
I think this would be very nice.

I get an MySQL failure message:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM DTO_garage_vehicle WHERE userid =  AND display='1';

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND display='1'' at line 1
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064
Fehler-Zeit   : Friday, 26.06.2009 @ 20:49:09
Datum         : Friday, 26.06.2009 @ 20:49:12
Skript        : http://www.2-wheel-planet.de/showthread.php?t=357
Referrer      : 
IP-Adresse    : 
Benutzername  : Kolbi
Klassenname   : 
MySQL-Version : 5.0.67-log

We chose to not develop commenting and reviews since we wanted to gather site owner requirements for these features. As you can imagine these features could easily be abused by members/visitors by way of artificially driving up/down a garage rating, inappropriate comments relative to your site guidelines, etc. Given this I wanted to gather input on how owners would like to see these features managed and calculated (ratings) so that they minimize admin monitoring and provide something useful to the members.

As for the SQL error are you still receiving these? It looks like the above might have been displayed in rendering a Garage pop-up menu.

Thanks!

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by oly51

I'm getting the following dB error after I applied the postbit fix. It goes away when I disable DTO Garage.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM DTO_garage_vehicle WHERE userid =  AND display='1';

MySQL Error   : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND display='1'' at line 1
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Friday, June 26th 2009 @ 08:39:40 PM
Error Date    : Friday, June 26th 2009 @ 08:39:40 PM
Script        : http://www.XXXXXXX.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9750
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : 
Username      : 
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community

Edit: I re-imported the original XML file and DTO garage works without the dB error. But there is no garage link in the postbit.

Can you send me a PM with the URL where this error is being created? Obviously in my haste to provide a garage link plugin fix I missed something when trying to code this from a campground in Colorado

Thanks!

Mark