Add-On Releases - CND Garage - Timeslips

Description
CND Garage Timeslips is a garage/timeslip add on for vbulletin. Although it looks like phpbbgarage this is NOT a port, it is 100% my own code. I just modeled the layout to look like it.
Users can add as many vehicles, timeslips and images that the admin allows. The admin can define the amounts per site or per usergroup. Images are stored in the filesystem and thumbnails are automatically created as the image is uploaded.

Main Features

• No vb template modification needed (except to add link to navigation/community)
• Ajax driven menu's to keep load time down for very large lists of makes/models
• Button images are attached to style so that each style can have their own images
• 99.9% of the text is phrased so that it can be translated for multinational sites
• User's vehicles shown in their profile (vb 3.7+)
• vboption used for type of garage, to help aid in change it from a car to a motorcycle, atv, etc garage system
• Easily import data from vbgarage

NEW FEATURES IN 2.0!!!!

• New navbar menu, dropdown vehicle options and dropdown administrator options to clean up the layout
• On the fly watermarking, text and image
• Run garage outside of the forum directory
• Image resizing, 3 sizes of images, link on lytebox to open large image
• Trim field, vehicle class and purchase date added to the vehicle data
• Vehicle of the day automatic cron added
• Vehicle of the month setting with customizable image

Installation
Instructions, tips and more are now in the online documentation as well as an included chm file.
Both are linked in the read me file.

The garage is developed on vb 3.8.3 and tested back to 3.7.0. The garage will run on PHP 4.4.7+ compiled with GD/GD2 and MySQL 4.1.x+

I am currently working on an importer for the old timeslips database.

Additional options for the garage like dyno charts, modifications and lots more are included in the commercial version at CND Systems

Added
The vba_vehicle_display.xml is a vbadvanced module to add a verticle column with vehicles, can be either latest vehicles, random vehicles or the featured vehicle. Once imported you can modify the module to change the number of vehicles displayed. This only works with the 2.x series.
The forum_home_2_0_2.xml file is a vb product which will display garage images on your forum home page. It has options for the location and number of images which is set through the ACP vboptions section. This only works with the 2.x series.
The postbit_user_garage-1_4_1.xml is a vb product which will add a link to the user garage in the postbit. Configure this on the Garage General Settings vboptions tab.


Release Notes
v2.0.6 - 09/8/2009
Fixed vb problem with cleaning numbers formatted with non english decimal and thousand separators
Fixed extra $ in vehicle dropdown menu

v2.0.5 - 09/6/2009
Fixed decimal spacing on timeslips
Added ability to remove VOTM
Added ability to remove Featured Vehicle

v2.0.4 - 09/5/2009
Fixed image links breaking when changing vehicle user
Fixed decimal and thousand separator on viewing items
Fixed removing engine type error

v2.0.3 - 09/1/2009
Fixed editing number fields for decimal and thousand separater in different languages
Fixed problem with timezone skewing dates
Fixed switching Miles/KM in timeslip
Fixed ACP Front Block modification
Fixed dates with year and day problems
Fixed approval header background
Fixed front row blocks number and order

v2.0.2 - 08/27/2009
Fixed problem with vehicle image uploads if set to Basic and Per Item
Fixed problem with 2.0.1 import, permission field does not get created
Fixed unused fields killing vehicle creation

v2.0.1 - 08/25/2009
Fixed bug with vehicle options not being available
Fixed admin editing user vehicle
Fixed header owner name on front page block
Modified templates to clean up navigation
Modified templates to clean up admin vehicle options
Fixed vehicle purchase date showing wrong on view
Fixed not used data showing in user vehicle's view

v2.0.0 - 08/23/2009
Way too many changes to put it here, read the included change log

v1.0.3 - 07/22/2009
Fixed expired session submitting vehicle
Fixed verifying vehicle owner on edit

v1.0.2 - 07/17/2009
Fixed red x on browse vehicles with no image
Fixed missing phrases for ACP options
Fixed deleting and setting primary of images
Add vbgarage import tool

v1.0.1 - 07/15/2009
Fixed variables
Fixed popup to create new makes/models

[EcoCav]

I found a few other things, not sure if they are bugs or not.

When you go to the garage main page (/forum/garage.php) the Top Timeslips block are listed slowest to fastest. Would it be possible to add the members name to the timslip block too? If there are more then 5 slips, it removed the fastest slips.

On the "Latest Vehicle Comments" block it says "Posted Date" but lists the car owners name.

Another problem I found was the Top Rated Vehicles. No matter how many times someone votes on a members car, it wont go above 10.00/10, if you vote a lower number, it still stays at 10.00/10.

Would it be possible to have a larger "Add Vehicle" button on the main page? Many of my users where unable to see the Add Vehicle link.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by EcoCav

I found a few other things, not sure if they are bugs or not.

When you go to the garage main page (/forum/garage.php) the Top Timeslips block are listed slowest to fastest. Would it be possible to add the members name to the timslip block too? If there are more then 5 slips, it removed the fastest slips.

In the ACP, under the CND Garage left menu pane you can change the sort order. The problem with adding the user to that block is there is a lot of data in it and everything would get squished. But if you want it I can give you directions on what to edit

Originally Posted by EcoCav

On the "Latest Vehicle Comments" block it says "Posted Date" but lists the car owners name.

On the includes/garage_func_var.php on line 2262 Change
'ThirdCol' => $vbphrase['garage_thead_posteddate']
to
'FourthCol' => $vbphrase['garage_thead_posteddate']

Originally Posted by EcoCav

Another problem I found was the Top Rated Vehicles. No matter how many times someone votes on a members car, it wont go above 10.00/10, if you vote a lower number, it still stays at 10.00/10.

10 out of 10 is the highest, not sure why you would want it to go higher? As to it not going down, I'm not sure why it's doing that. On my dev system it's working correctly. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

Originally Posted by EcoCav

Would it be possible to have a larger "Add Vehicle" button on the main page? Many of my users where unable to see the Add Vehicle link.

I'll try and think of something better then having it on the main menu bar. It does blend in a little too much. I tried having it on the row with the vehicles but if you have more then 5 vehicles it would screw up the layout.

[Big Kahuna]

I installed and tried to upload the first vehicle and got the message

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

[Dylanblitz]

If it's a new install, you might have another mod that is taking care of CSRF protection. You can go to the ACP and disable it on my mod.
ACP -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Garage General Settings
Set CSRF Protection to disabled

[2k05gt]

I have a question, if I install this version and next month purchase the full version, will it upgrade or do I need to uninstall then re-instal the full version?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by 2k05gt

I have a question, if I install this version and next month purchase the full version, will it upgrade or do I need to uninstall then re-instal the full version?

Technically you uninstall and reinstall the full.

The uninstall doesn't delete any tables/data so you would uninstall the product, move the commercial files over and install the upgrade from free script. This will modify the tables to match the commercial product.

I did it this way so I could get rid of all the vb templates/phrases/plugins/etc while retaining the data.

[2k05gt]

While posting a timeslip for the first time I got this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function CheckIfNumber() in /home/public_html/forum/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 147

[cellarius]

Hi, I'm the developer of photo popup (see sig) and have been approached to issue a new config file.

To do that, I just tried to install this. First of all: My testbed runs on PHP 5.3.0 - this mod is not yet ready for that version. See this post on what to do, it's an easy change, really.

Now, I followed the installation and post installation instructions to the letter (and I think I'm quite able to do that - you may prove me wrong there, tho), but all I get is, well, see screenshot. Note that there is no menu bar for cnd.

This is a rather virginal 3.8.4 testbed, running PHP 5.3.0 and MySQL 5.1.37

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by 2k05gt

While posting a timeslip for the first time I got this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function CheckIfNumber() in /home/public_html/forum/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 147

Sorry about that. The function didn't get moved over. I created it after I found out vb doesn't do well with cleaning non English language numbers.
In includes/garage_func_var.php at about line 700 you'll find

PHP Code:

function NotifyUsers($subject, $from_id, $to_id)
{ 


Before that put

PHP Code:

function CheckIfNumber($number)
{
$lang_number = preg_match
  ('/^[+-]?'. 
  '(((([0-9]+)|([0-9]{1,4}(,[0-9]{3,4})+)))?(\\.[0-9])?([0-9]*)|'. 
  '((([0-9]+)|([0-9]{1,4}(\\.[0-9]{3,4})+)))?(,[0-9])?([0-9]*))'. 
  '(e[0-9]+)?'. 
  '$/', 
  $number) == 1; 
    if ($lang_number != 1)
    {
    $number = 0;    
    }
return $number;
} 


[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Hi, I'm the developer of photo popup (see sig) and have been approached to issue a new config file.

To do that, I just tried to install this. First of all: My testbed runs on PHP 5.3.0 - this mod is not yet ready for that version. See this post on what to do, it's an easy change, really.

Thanks for the info on that. Seems easy enough heh.

Originally Posted by cellarius

Now, I followed the installation and post installation instructions to the letter (and I think I'm quite able to do that - you may prove me wrong there, tho), but all I get is, well, see screenshot. Note that there is no menu bar for cnd.

This is a rather virginal 3.8.4 testbed, running PHP 5.3.0 and MySQL 5.1.37

I've never seen that problem before. It's like it's not recognizing even basic vb commands like construct_phrase.