Major Additions - DTO Garage - free garage features for all your members (vB 3.8.X)

Drive Thru Online ? Garage

Overview

DTO Garage is a free product allowing all members of a site to show off their car, truck, motorcycle or other powersports toy. Site owners can easily adapt the section and subsection titles to suit the attributes to the site's focus. Images are stored locally preventing broken links and over limit displays common with images linked offsite. Drive Thru Online has made upgrading to the paid version of DTO Garage Plus easy, all user data stored in DTO Garage is retained for a seamless transition.

For users, management of their vBulletin garage is conveniently handled through their user control panel. The intuitive user interface encourages even the most challenged to create a compelling Garage. Images are added via a wizard from either the users own computer or a specified URL. Thumbnails are dynamically created with high-resolution images displayed in a navigable Lytebox. Users can designate whether a garage is visible to the rest of the site members or hidden until they have time to polish the information and give it the debut it deserves. Other users can view garages using interactive pop-up menus embedded in each post or through the Garage owner's profile.

Key Features

• vBulletin Options-based customization of information collected and presented in garages
• User management of garages via User Control Panel
• Simple-to-use image uploads per garage
• Lytebox presentation of high resolution garage images
• bbCode supported in information areas
• Additional image placement in information area supported
• Dynamic presentation of garages in postbit and user profile
• Embedded full featured searchable and indexed Help
• Fully documented
• Fully supported

Language Translation
As of version 1.1.3 DTO Garage has not been fully phrased and only supports English. With a future release it is our intent to offer a fully phrased version to support language translation of the product. When the fully phrased version is available we will provide documentation and tools to speed translations of the product for use on your site. We will also encourage those who have performed a translation to contribute it for distribution to other members. Any contributed languages will be included with this thread and credit given to the author. Site owners are free to translate the product either in its current state or future releases as they see fit given that the note found in the following Upgrade section is followed when upgrading. While Drive Thru Online will provide information to translators regarding the context of wording we can not provide support to facilitate the actual translation itself.

Compatibility

• Fully compatible with vBulletin 3.6.8 through vBulletin 3.8.x
• PHP 5.X or later (compiled with GD support) and MySQL 5.X or later is required.

Upgrading from a previous version of DTO Garage

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
4. Note: If you have customized the DTO Garage templates in a previous release it is recommended that you make a copy of your changes, revert to the version of templates included with the new release and migrate your changes into the new version's templates. Failure to do this may cause the product to operate improperly and/or support new features that may have been added to the product.
5. If you use a custom style for your site you may have to modify the garage templates. For more information refer to this how-to written to address the most common modifications required.

Installation & Configuration for vB 3.6.x through vb 3.8.x

1. Prior to installation/upgrade we recommend that you perform a back up of your site's database and files.
2. After unzipping the attached package open readme.html in your browser.
3. Click on the ?Documentation & installation instructions? to view the complete documentation for Garage.
   
   Alternatively, you can also access documentation by visiting our web site under the Support tab.

Copyright & Licensing

• DTO Garage is copyright protected by Drive Thru Online, Inc.
• You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
• Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.
• In addition, the supplied copyright notice must be maintained.

Other Drive Thru Online Products

• DTO Garage and Garage Plus vBadvanced Modules ? free vBadvanced modules for Garage and Garage Plus
• DTO Garage Plus ? paid version with vBSEO sitemap generator add-ons, usergroup permissions, and advanced search features. Click here for a comparison of Garage and Garage Plus.
• DTO Clubs, ShowCase, and Vendor Tools - paid products designed to grow your membership and create revenue from your site

Support

We will provide support in this thread on an as-needed basis to members that have marked this modification as Installed. Additional support resources can be found on our site under the Support tab.

Release and Version History
1.1.3 - October 7, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

New Features

• Changed orientation of images in garage display from vertical to horizontal orientation for cleaner display.
• Modified index page to provide paged display of most recently added garages.
• Added error handling for upload of unsupported image formats when adding a picture to a garage.

Fixes

• Added caching of garage-related templates for use in private message postbit display.

1.1.2 - August 21, 2009
New feature and bug fix release

Note: This release did not include updated documentation to reflect the new features below. As this is an interim release we will be updating documentation with the next 1.2.0 release of Garage and Garage Plus.

New Features

• Garage index page - index page accessible from breadcrumb when viewing a members garage. Displays a random selection of up to 25 member garages.
• Navbar menu - Added "My Garage" link when user is logged in
• Navbar menu - Added "Garages" to take user to garage index page
• With a garage index page member garages are no longer display in a new browser window (the only exception is if you preview your own garage when managing it).

Fixes

• Users currently not logged in are prevented from managing or adding a garage.
• When using quick reply the Garage link is shown in the user's postbit given that the user has a visible garage configured.

1.1.1 - July 6, 2009
Fix release

• Correct alignment of Garage/Garage Plus navbar pop-up menu.
• SQL error when rendering Garage postbit links for guest users - no longer attempts to render a link for Guest users.
• Corrected issue for sites using database table prefixes where a SQL error was generated when attempting to insert an image into a garage.

1.1.0 - June 19, 2009
Initial release

[mferguson]

Be glad to assist. If you will mark this mod as being installed I'll be happy to follow up and work to address your questions.

Thanks!

Mark

Originally Posted by Jhonnydc

Hi... beatiful mod... perfect for my NUOVA FIAT 500 Forum

I have a little problem... I HOPE...little...

I have just added one veichle, and i have click on ADD NEW VEICHLE, but i can't...

This is the error that I see...



And...
If i want add a button that open the user's garage...under a user's description... in this position... What I must make?




please Help me thanks

[Qwest]

Anyone got a live demo where I cna actually see this working? The screenshots don't really show as much as I need to see

Also I am very interested in modifying this for PC rigs since I run a laptop gaming forum. How hard would it be working with the phrases etc to do that?

[Kolbi]

Here my garage link: http://www.2-wheel-planet.de/dto_gar...ehicle_id=1000

Just wait until the next version is out, with this version it will be easily

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Qwest

Anyone got a live demo where I cna actually see this working? The screenshots don't really show as much as I need to see

Also I am very interested in modifying this for PC rigs since I run a laptop gaming forum. How hard would it be working with the phrases etc to do that?

For the paid version there are several sites that are now running it. The paid version has additional features like browse, search, usergroup permissions for garages (access and number), and support for vBSEO but it will give you an idea of what it is like. Take a look at http:www.truestreetcars.com and click on Garage in the header (Note: this is NOT one of our sites).

As for the current release of the free version it is only about 80% phrased meaning that not all language elements are handled in the phrasing system. There are some items in the templates and a few being generated by code. That said you do have the ability to customize section headings and some other basic information directly from the Garage vBulletin Options settings. It is our plan to release a fully phrased version (along with some new features) of the paid version in the August time frame.

While you could heavily modify Garage/Garage Plus to support your need we actually have another product that would likely meet your needs more easily. PM me and I can provide information on that as well as arrange a demo.

Thanks!

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Jhonnydc

ok.. thanks... and for the button... ???

If you'll mark the mod as being installed I will work with you to get the postbit link resolved. There should be a link by default in your postbit/postbit_legacy like the following given that the user of that post has one garage defined and it is publicly visible:



Thanks!

Mark

[Jhonnydc]

I have resolve for the icon
This mod is perfect for a cars's or bike's forum!!!Compliments!!!clap clap!!!

A PAIR OF suggestions...
- Create an icon for postbit and insert in the new release.. it's more beauty...
-The administrator must have the possibility of modify garage's user.... or is it possible now...
because I have this problem...and I can't modify...

He haven't upload a photo, but this is an error...




How can resolve it???

p.s.
this is my garage I don't know if you can see it but i post it
http://www.clubnuovafiat500.it/forum...ehicle_id=1001

[rabster]

How do I limit some members from adding Vehicles etc

I have a paid subscription group and I want them to be able to add there cars but not the standard members

Is this possible

Andrew

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Jhonnydc

A PAIR OF suggestions...
- Create an icon for postbit and insert in the new release.. it's more beauty...
-The administrator must have the possibility of modify garage's user.... or is it possible now...
because I have this problem...and I can't modify...

As an administrator the ability to modify or delete another user's garage is something that we have slated for an upcoming release of the Garage Plus (paid) version. I expect this release to be available in the month of August. This release will also support additional translation for selected languages. If there is interest in languages other than English and German please post to this thread.

Originally Posted by Jhonnydc

He haven't upload a photo, but this is an error...




How can resolve it???

p.s.
this is my garage I don't know if you can see it but i post it
http://www.clubnuovafiat500.it/forum...ehicle_id=1001

I just took a quick look at your site and looked at your postbit entries and they appear to be working correctly since I do not see repeated entries. As for the user profile display it should have an image shown to the left of your vehicle name. Given that you likely modified the templates and/or code to support your postbit needs I suspect that the display has been broken in some way since we use the same code to display in both areas.

If you would like any type of additional support please mark this mod as installed.

Thanks!

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by rabster

How do I limit some members from adding Vehicles etc

I have a paid subscription group and I want them to be able to add there cars but not the standard members

Is this possible

Andrew

In the free version of Garage everyone, except for guests and banned members, have one garage each. There is no means included to limit them.

In the Garage Plus (paid) version of the product you have usergroup level permissions allowing certain usergroups to have garages and to specify how many they have access to. Plus also contains browse and search interfaces, vBSEO add-ons, plus a number of other features.

If you have additional questions feel free to PM me.

Thanks!

Mark

[hugh_]

Originally Posted by mferguson

Can you provide a step by step on how you encounter this issue? If you are just clicking on an Add Image link and immediately getting a white page do you have the vBulletin Option Use 'vBMenu' DHTML Popup Menus? set to Yes? This option is found under Style & Language Settings.

Thanks!

Mark

With the DHTML menus enabled this works fine, thanks for you time and good work...

Hugh