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

[SPEEDKILLZ]

That worked for me as well. Thanks

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by Action-N

I was able to make the tab show by going to the garage tab in the navigation manager. Edit the main tab setting url to "garage.php" an deleting the show permission name. So imagine anyone will see it doing this, but will get you something.

Good job and thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Action-N

Hard to believe this bug hasn't been found before now.

This great mod has not been updated in a long time and is not compatible with the new navigational manager. You would expect it to have navigational problems out of the box.

[Devilbrad]

Argh! Can anyone help me with an install of this? Basic rookie mistakes. We can PM it not to clutter up the thread

[Action-N]

Hey Devilbrad what'd you do man, your site is down. What's a rookie mistake, that can't be fixed by uninstalling.

[Devilbrad]

Crap, sorry. Didnt change my sig. Im using a new domain now but its still on 3.8.6. Im setting up a mirror site since im upgrading to 4.0.6 (for now.. thats all my license will let me do) but im fumbling thru all this. I uploaded the files then installed the "new install" xml but got errors before it even installed. Is it because im only on 4.0.x?

The test site is www.racemagnum.com/thefogpound

[Action-N]

Um Devilbrad, yeah that's pretty rookie move if your starting with the xml with "new install" in the name. Smack yourself upside the head an install the "vb_pro_garage.xml" first, second the "vb_pro_garage_language_english.xml", then last you install that one you tried. His poor choice in naming is confusing, but it is only for a fresh install an not for a garage that has categories or garages.

[Devilbrad]

AH! Yes I'll admit, this is all new to me. Done lots of other web stuff but never vb stuff so its a big learning curve! I'll double smack myself for that one, I did as you said and its been installing so far!

I did take a look at your vbRides and it looks VERY nice! Something I might want to have. But since I am upgrading an existing forum, i thought it was be considerate if I didnt lose all their vehicles. (my garage from 3.x will install into this one, right??) Will yours??

[Action-N]

Wasn't trying to beat you up, like I said the way he named it was misleading. I haven't started any import code yet no. Good luck with upgrade, this thread is full of error reports. Get backups of what you can associated with the garage, code wise an the images are in folders on your server, just in case.

[Devilbrad]

Haha, no worries. Im a good sport about my faults.

I now have the "Garage" menu button and even added a car but when I click on the button nothing happens. I DID set the button to ENABLED and made the garage active.

[Action-N]

Originally Posted by Action-N

Good luck with upgrade, this thread is full of error reports.

Your tab is just the text, no link. Try what I posted for a tab fix for Speedkills, in the nav manager. The garage is there, just need the tab fixed. http://www.racemagnum.com/thefogpound/garage.php