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

[deschutes]

Bummer. I am stuck with a broken installation. Anyone have 3.0.8 so I can go back?

[Action-N]

I had to make a comment on the style an layout of this mod needs major work. I want to have this add on for my new website, but it doesn't match the design of the default vbulletin. I thought I just needed to change the tables style code to use the vbulletins theme, but getting overwhelmed with the amount of work involved. Hope the author sees this an realizes it's time to do a fresh rewrite. Even in his own posted screenshots of the timeslip page the text is against the border. The first image has the category images without spacing bunched up with each other an the border. An the top box doesn't have text so it's not at the same height. Plus the garage counts aren't showing correctly for the categories.

Less focus on features, more on design now please.

[Jonm]

nothing but issues when trying to upload new photos...

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/garage/attach/5/4/9/garage_vehicle-169-13610058541_full.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2821

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpU8q316' to 'images/garage/attach/5/4/9/garage_vehicle-169-13610058541_full.jpg' in

&

DSC03601.jpg - Error: Image could not be moved.

[cdoyle]

@Dylanblitz
Since you haven't posted in this thread in a long time, and haven't done any updates to the garage script. Does this mean you're no longer going to support it? Would you be opposed to someone else taking over development of this mod? It's such a great add-on, and I would love to see more features added, and the bugs fixed.

Could you let the community know, and then if he's OK with it. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on this?

Chris

[Jonm]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

@Dylanblitz
Since you haven't posted in this thread in a long time, and haven't done any updates to the garage script. Does this mean you're no longer going to support it? Would you be opposed to someone else taking over development of this mod? It's such a great add-on, and I would love to see more features added, and the bugs fixed.

Could you let the community know, and then if he's OK with it. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on this?

Chris

Good idea :up:

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Jonm

Good idea :up:

I would love to see improvements in this mod, but I'm afraid it's dead

[Action-N]

It's not dead they have their own website, click "Visit Web Site" under developers name. Besides it's only been a few months since last update geesh. However it does need work, my opinion a complete rewrite an to refocus on the point of the mod. I wanted to build a garage mod for years an looks like there is still a need for an honest no bull crap garage mod.

[fulviods]

I'm on a vb 4.1.11 and just upgraded the script to the last version. I have 3 main bugs, how to solve this problem ?

1) the link to the garage in the main navbar menu is not working it just send me to the forum homepage ! how to change the url ?

2) in the previous version we added html text in the "Garage welcome message", but now the html is no more recognized. How to switch this field in html ?

3) if i enable SEO Urls the pages dont work anymore . I cut and pasted the lines in the seo page into my htaccess but its not working...

If someone can help me with those points??

[fulviods]

no one ? ??

[Mark4865]

Suddenly cant get photos to upload all other info is fine when adding a vehicle but when trying to include and image it just says cant move image but I am uploading as per normal from my PC

Any ideas, all help appreciated