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

[Lemmi540iat]

Thx 4 answer,

sorry the + is to high (price) for my small forum.
Thx and merry christmas

[karabaja3]

Thx for reply!

I have only one more issue. I simply cant edit link color in links inside navbar popup.

They remain white as on this screenshot:



They should be red like the rest of links. I did not change any of classes. They are all default.

This is what should look like:

[mferguson]

Given the style you have on your site I would recommend that you look at how the drop down list of something like community or search is styled. Typically there is a class defined on each of the drop down items so you just need alter our navbar template to use these same classes.

Thanks

Mark

[kNeeLy]

is there anyway to make like a display of pictures on the forum home page? Like, maybe of newest installed car, or random car pics? Kinda like vHoist has? I have un-installed vhoist and installed DTO, and am loving it.

I have the VBA module installed, but I would really love to show 4-5 pictures in a row on the main page....

[mferguson]

In our Garage Plus product you have a lot more control over how the block is installed and displayed. For Garage you can modify the vBadvanced code found in the modules directory to suit your needs more closely.

Thanks!

Mark

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by mferguson

Given the style you have on your site I would recommend that you look at how the drop down list of something like community or search is styled. Typically there is a class defined on each of the drop down items so you just need alter our navbar template to use these same classes.

Hi! I just did, and classess in dto_garage_navbar are the same as the original style navbar and drop down menus, but the link in dto garage are remains same as in the screenshot above.

Edited dto_garage_navbar

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a id="navbar_garage" href="$vboptions[bburl]/dto_garage_help.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">Gara?a</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_garage"); </script>
  <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_garage_menu" style="display:none">
    <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td class="thead" align="left">Garage</td>
      </tr>
      <if condition="$useMyGarage">
        <tr>
          <td style="cursor: default;" class="vbmenu_option vbmenu_option_alink"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/dto_garage.php$session[sessionurl_q]?do=editgarage">My garage</a></td>
        </tr>
      </if>
      <tr>
        <td style="cursor: default;" class="vbmenu_option vbmenu_option_alink"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/dto_garage.php$session[sessionurl_q]?do=index">Other garages</a></td>
      </tr>
      $dto_garage_plus_search
    </table>
  </div></td>

So, where from is he pulling styles?

Could this be the problem?

<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_garage"); </script>

Please, help.

[mferguson]

Its really difficult to diagnose this types of issues without seeing the site and code. If you would be willing to come to our site you can register and then open a ticket. Once we have that information I can log in and figure out what's going on. I've done enough of these types of adjustments that it should be pretty quick to resolve.

You can also PM me directly if you would be more comfortable.

Thanks

Mark

[ggr80]

Can someone please help me, I have past members who have gone adn would like to delete their garage but cant find anything anywhere on where to do it.

Its a fantastic product btw.

[mferguson]

There isn't direct support for this in the free version. That said if you use Cyb's Login to User Account plugin you can find the garage of the person you want to delete, click on the user's name to go to their profile, and then login as that user. Once logged in just click on UserCP and go to Manage Garage and delete the garage.

Hope this helps!

Mark

[kNeeLy]

Hey is there a fix for this clashing with YAAS? (Yet another awards system)? I can't go to my www. ur/ forum / awards.php page with DTO installed. It's listed in the award system thread. Everyone who has both mods installed is getting the same error. And, most of the car forums use both, as they go hand in hand.

Here's my post...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=566
Here's the original post with the problem....
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=539
and here's the whole thread...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196244

It seems there clashing and a poster said he "commented out a line in adminfunctions.php" and it worked. I dont wanna go messing with any codes I dont know.

We're all getting the same error code....

Can you help?