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

[bosanci28]

Yes, any updates on this will be nice! i may use it also for my next car forum soon.

[Action-N]

I looked into fixing up this add-on an the code seems to to old to clean up, then how to release an update for someone else's stuff. I made a decent attempt an starting something new then burnt out struggling with css styling. One of the other things I struggled with was not having a default template for creating an add-on to know how to set one up. Would be nice to just start editing a blank mod than reinventing the wheel. Anyway I'll take some screenshots to share where I was headed with my design.

Link to my view garage design concept. Where I struggled to build the css to look like this. Didn't want to give in the HTML tables cause I hardly see that in anything new. I had to link the image it was to big for an attachment.
http://www.action-network.com/images...arage_page.jpg

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Action-N

I looked into fixing up this add-on an the code seems to to old to clean up, then how to release an update for someone else's stuff. I made a decent attempt an starting something new then burnt out struggling with css styling. One of the other things I struggled with was not having a default template for creating an add-on to know how to set one up. Would be nice to just start editing a blank mod than reinventing the wheel. Anyway I'll take some screenshots to share where I was headed with my design.

Link to my view garage design concept. Where I struggled to build the css to look like this. Didn't want to give in the HTML tables cause I hardly see that in anything new. I had to link the image it was to big for an attachment.
http://www.action-network.com/images...arage_page.jpg

What you had looked pretty good.

I would just love to get an more updated garage system for VB, I'm surprised there hasn't been more attempts toward it.

What I would love it to allow users to do more than just upload pictures. I think it would be cool to almost allow them to start a history of the car, and add entries as they accomplish more things with their car, accompanied with images/text/date.

[Action-N]

Hey cdoyle, yeah I know, I hope there is enough demand for it still. I'm sure many people gave up, but between the two garage systems an those using photopost hope to finally give them what they want.

I started with christeris classified script rebuilding it, he already had plenty of features that work for a garage. Just some concerned now as he give his mods to another developer how that'll work out when I ask to introduce my product off his code.

That is my plan to support photos, video, audio files. As for history I'm gonna link to a blog category for "Build Progress" an use that for history/updates. Also gonna put in a maintenance log for work done.

Probably gonna post a thread for development to take this discussion out of this mods thread. Gonna want feedback and ideas on what it should have.

FYI made major progress since last post, had the weekend an now two day vacation to work on it.

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Action-N

Hey cdoyle, yeah I know, I hope there is enough demand for it still. I'm sure many people gave up, but between the two garage systems an those using photopost hope to finally give them what they want.

I started with christeris classified script rebuilding it, he already had plenty of features that work for a garage. Just some concerned now as he give his mods to another developer how that'll work out when I ask to introduce my product off his code.

That is my plan to support photos, video, audio files. As for history I'm gonna link to a blog category for "Build Progress" an use that for history/updates. Also gonna put in a maintenance log for work done.

Probably gonna post a thread for development to take this discussion out of this mods thread. Gonna want feedback and ideas on what it should have.

FYI made major progress since last post, had the weekend an now two day vacation to work on it.

Wow that sounds great.
If you start another thread, please post a link here. I would like to follow it and contribute in any way I can.

[bosanci28]

I also want to know where this is going , very soon within 1-2 weeks i will need to have one of this on my forum,and wanted to know where @Action-N , in what stage is it and when will be ready.

Thanks.

[Mark4865]

heh guys

anyone know how to remove the total vehicle count from the main top block and replace it with an image in between the slideshow and random vehicle images

[Action-N]

Hey Mark, I'm sure mine is been modified so I can only give you what to try. First the template comments turned on view your page source via the web browser an search for (total vehicle) text. Look to see what template it is in between the nearest BEGIN END template comment tags. Most likely it is "garage_welcomebox". See if that has anything in there like total count, an that is where to remove that text. Leave "raw welcomemsg" at least. Then go to vb options look for "Garage General Settings" then near the top you'll see garage welcome message field. According to version 3.0.2 he added bbcode support "Added bbcode capabilities to welcome box on garage front page" so just post your center image like it was a forum post an it should work.

On another topic, notice your a porsche only website so you probably don't need a top category of porsche. Might help that front page look fuller if it started with the model categories.

[Mark4865]

Thanks for the advice and info Action-N sounds a bit beyond my skill level but I will tread carefully and check it out, appreciate the advice

[Action-N]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

If you start another thread, please post a link here. I would like to follow it and contribute in any way I can.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=306963