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

[Martyn1983]

GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

Going to try and run that .php repair file in a sec, see if that helps - indeed it seems to have, most of the cars now have corresponding pics again! Thanks very much!!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Martyn1983

GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

Going to try and run that .php repair file in a sec, see if that helps - indeed it seems to have, most of the cars now have corresponding pics again! Thanks very much!!

Good to hear

[TransAmDan]

Have downloaded an installed, I'm having trouble importing the language,

I get:-

vBulletin Message
Invalid File Specified

With no language, I have blank text in many places, including blank buttons. Have re uploaded all files and tried again, still get same problem.


EDIT:-
Doh, just seen a previous post which answers this...

Make sure you are doing it in the right location, Languages and Phrases and not Products.

Here are the install instructions
http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...ion_script.htm

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by TransAmDan

Have downloaded an installed, I'm having trouble importing the language,

I get:-


With no language, I have blank text in many places, including blank buttons. Have re uploaded all files and tried again, still get same problem.


EDIT:-
Doh, just seen a previous post which answers this...

Is everything running good now? Let me know if you run into any problems.

[Miss Chatterbox]

I'd just like to say installed and loving it! A fantastic addition to our forum!

Thank you!

[Sixes]

Silly question, but in the garage_directory.php file, you have to edit where the forum is.

If the forum is located at for instance forum.com/forum

What is the full path I have to use?

Thanks

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Sixes

Silly question, but in the garage_directory.php file, you have to edit where the forum is.

If the forum is located at for instance forum.com/forum

What is the full path I have to use?

Thanks

This is only needed if you are going to run the garage outside of the forum directory.
So if you have http://www.mysite.com/forum and you want to run it at http://garage.mysite.com or http://www.mysite.com/garage then you need to fill that out.
If you do want to run it like that, you need the absolute path to the forum. You can get it by logging into
ACP->Maintenance->View PHP Info

Find the variable: SCRIPT_FILENAME

The value will be something like
/home/mysite/public_html/forum/admincp/index.php
if you are on a linux system.

The value you need to put in the $forum_directory variable would be
/home/mysite/public_html/forum/

Hope that answers it for you

[Sixes]

Externally? Umm no. It all in the one spot.

Next Q I have is the files in the .zip, do they get uploaded into the directories listed or do I upload the whole lot into one folder and go from there?

Im a little confused with that. And yes, this is my first forum

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Sixes

Externally? Umm no. It all in the one spot.

Next Q I have is the files in the .zip, do they get uploaded into the directories listed or do I upload the whole lot into one folder and go from there?

Im a little confused with that. And yes, this is my first forum

If you are running it in the forum directory then you don't need to modify the directory file.

Everyone had their first forum once
You can upload it all at once into the forum directory. It will just add the files to the folders and not get rid of the files currently there.
So you don't need to go into the upload/admincp directory and ftp to the admincp directory to move just those files. You can move them all at once.

Once you move the files and install the package, make sure you do the language as well. I have instructions posted here

http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...ion_script.htm

[Sixes]

Much appreciated! Thanks