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

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Noerenberg

i change some from english to german

is this the problem?

I've had problems with non english characters interfering with the ajax menu's for manufacturers/products in the full version. Could be the same kind of thing. So if there are things like ??? it will cause problems.
I'm planning on replacing the Ajax code in the next minor release to something I can work with a bit more.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Dylan, can you post product-bszopi_user_garage_vb4-2_0.xml here?

I registered on your forum but it appears I don't have access to download that.

Yeah, I'm going to release a new package tonight with the fixes for the bugs I've worked out so far. The postbit hack will be included in the zip.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by BlackJacket

bug - Logs users out when they view the garage.

Thanks!

**Update - Logs everyone out when they view a specific area. when viewing garage.php the user is logged in fine. If they click on a vehicle or any garage link, they are logged out.

Something to check

ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings-> Garage Files URL
Did you put anything in that field?
Most times it will work fine without it, sometimes it doesn't.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by venom2124

Okay deleted everything and reloaded it. Reinstalled new file and still get the same error when I have the garage active.



So still not sure what to do to fix this.

Okay, more then one way to skin a cat before you eat it
Can you pm me your email? I'll create a package just to empty that table.

[venom2124]

Uninstalled and reinstalled all files one last time and this time it worked go figure. Will have to see if everything works as other members add there rides.

Thanks for all the help during this process.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by venom2124

Uninstalled and reinstalled all files one last time and this time it worked go figure. Will have to see if everything works as other members add there rides.

Thanks for all the help during this process.

No problem, sorry for all the problems. Glad you got it working now

[venom2124]

Its all good been looking forward to this mod.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Dylan, can you post product-bszopi_user_garage_vb4-2_0.xml here?

I registered on your forum but it appears I don't have access to download that.

New package is up. The xml is in the tools folder.

[cTak]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

New package is up. The xml is in the tools folder.

Awesome works great, but seems as if the Trim is not showing up? I do see the trim is in the code but trim does not appear in the post bit.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Awesome works great, but seems as if the Trim is not showing up? I do see the trim is in the code but trim does not appear in the post bit.

Yup, the trim wasn't in there. I fixed it and reuploaded the package.