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]

Where do i change the options of the garage layout? What setting? I would like it to look like the second screenshot here. Right now it looks like http://builtspeed.com/garage.php Three of the same

[Action-N]

They look the same because they are sorted by newest or last updated. Last section is most viewed so it's order is different. Plus you don't have that many cars to show still. The reason they look the same is the css seems to me missing or broken. The header text is white on a white background. The width of the columns are probably set via css an without it their pushing the right column out of the way. Took a quick peak at your source code an see where the vbgarage css tags are, it just there just in "<style>" tag, try changing to "<style type="text/css">".

[SPEEDKILLZ]

Thnak you i tried that and still looks close to the same. Not sure where to change headers on it. But this is thet page i would like it to look like https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...6&d=1288225794

[KenDude]

I am honestly quite shocked. I searched Google for sites running 3.0.9 full version and visited about a dozen of them. At each I emailed the site admin through the contact us form asking if I could get a copy of the 3.0.9 FULL version zip file so I can repair my site that lost its full version in a recent upgrade from vb3 to vb4. Despite giving my contact information, not a single one responded. Most depressing! If anyone has the file and can send to me please let me know!

[PDPJR]

Originally Posted by KenDude

I am honestly quite shocked. I searched Google for sites running 3.0.9 full version and visited about a dozen of them. At each I emailed the site admin through the contact us form asking if I could get a copy of the 3.0.9 FULL version zip file so I can repair my site that lost its full version in a recent upgrade from vb3 to vb4. Despite giving my contact information, not a single one responded. Most depressing! If anyone has the file and can send to me please let me know!

I'm in the same boat. I'm not shocked - we've all been drilled not to give out "paid" or registered software. We have our licensed 3.0.7 install files, but it does us no good. I've tried reaching out to the developer multiple times via multiple email addresses I had for him. Being as his website has been shut down and he's not answering, we're up the creek at this point. If someone is willing to share with us 3.0.9 (And we can prove our license by our 3.0.7 version), that would be great. But we're not holding our breath.

Worst part is, even if we wanted to, there's no other product out there (yet) to replace the garage with.

[KenDude]

Originally Posted by PDPJR

I'm in the same boat. I'm not shocked - we've all been drilled not to give out "paid" or registered software. We have our licensed 3.0.7 install files, but it does us no good. I've tried reaching out to the developer multiple times via multiple email addresses I had for him. Being as his website has been shut down and he's not answering, we're up the creek at this point. If someone is willing to share with us 3.0.9 (And we can prove our license by our 3.0.7 version), that would be great. But we're not holding our breath.

Worst part is, even if we wanted to, there's no other product out there (yet) to replace the garage with.

Well I understand about not giving out full versions to just anyone but I would think someone would have emailed me back and asked me to verify my 3.0.7 license or something then we could go from there. It isn't like the product is even sold anymore. Would people have a hard time giving out a copy of Microsoft Money??? Or any other discontinued product? they aren't hurting Dylan in anyway by doing so. If Dylan offered it for sale again id buy in a heartbeat just to support him. I was one of his early supporters because I had used timeslips prior to his garage and worked with him on feature set specs and things my large automotive site members wanted and needed. For some other site admin to clutch onto this dead code and not even reply to my email or call my phone number I included just seems strange to me. I would help a fellow board owner out in a heartbeat, I'm not sure why some others won't but I figured I should take the conversation public if I ever hope to get a reply...

[Killeglass]

Dlyan is fine he just had some computer issues to deal with, should be back in the loop soon

[Action-N]

I see your guys pain, I never did buy the paid version so couldn't help you out there. Question, what all did the paid version have that your wanting back? I remember the manufacture part could have been, but can't recall what else now.

I'm still working away at a alternative garage product, dang CSS stuff been kicking my arse.

[KenDude]

Originally Posted by Action-N

I see your guys pain, I never did buy the paid version so couldn't help you out there. Question, what all did the paid version have that your wanting back? I remember the manufacture part could have been, but can't recall what else now.

I'm still working away at a alternative garage product, dang CSS stuff been kicking my arse.

Off the top of my head all the business and modifications information, insurance, home page blocks, ability to turn off trim, VIN numbers and searching by them, bug fixes like the home page counts not going back to all 1's all the time, etc... so yeah several reasons to get the full version instead of the lite.


Oh and if Dylan is having computer problems have him call me, I can help with that... and he could email me the full zip from his phone at any time...


Wish lists for the future? better integration with the activity feed, service record tracking, better photo categorization and organization, add car at site registration time, fix bugs in the drop downs which at times dont show models that are really there in the index, year chooser should automatically advance the model year with time, ability to add colors to the paint color selection by users, and probably more if I put some more thought to it... such as showing other members who have the same model as you do when you look at your own page so you could connect socially, or aid each other in mode/repairs etc...


Just a little food for thought...

[KenDude]

And no registered owners have come back to this topic in the last 5 days....