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

[fulviods]

Thats weird, we tested the garage with my mods everything fine, now we launch garage for users but when they submit a car, i receive the private message that i have to approve but when I go in the listing "approve make" there is nothing !!! what could be the problem?

[Sixes]

Same thing here. I had to go a few levels down to approve it.

[fulviods]

Originally Posted by Sixes

Same thing here. I had to go a few levels down to approve it.

In fact as a moderator now i can see the vehicles thanks! But how to aprove them??? I dont see the option to approve! Can you tell me? thanks

[fulviods]

I found a solution! In fact coming from the pm there is nothing in the listing (except if im as a mod), but if i simply go on the homepage of the garage (as admin) i can see a link that indicates how many things are waiting and it works thanks!!! Im on vb 4.04 and this little problem maybe should be fixed, hopefully there is a solution. Thanks for this great mod!

[Sixes]

Thats what I ended up doing. The link you are given shows up blank so you have to go into the mod, find it and approve.

Great mod otherwise

[Dylanblitz]

Sorry about that, I found that the link for the approval area isn't showing up.

When there is an approval waiting the main page of the garage will have links to the items needing approval and the menu *should* have a link to the main approval page.

That link isn't working, I'll fix it and release an update.

[Sixes]

Many thanks!

[BlackJacket]

First i would like to thank you for such an awesome hack. I have been using it since 3.8 and couldn't have my community without it.

Back in 3.8 you created a mod that showed some of the vehicles on the forum home page. Is this going to be available with the 4.0 version? I found that it improved the # of clicks to the garage.

Thanks again!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by BlackJacket

First i would like to thank you for such an awesome hack. I have been using it since 3.8 and couldn't have my community without it.

Back in 3.8 you created a mod that showed some of the vehicles on the forum home page. Is this going to be available with the 4.0 version? I found that it improved the # of clicks to the garage.

Thanks again!

Sorry about that. I thought it was in the package. I'm going to release a new bugfix one soon. I'll include the code I have for a front page widget, the forum home images and the postbit link.

EDIT:
Actually, if you look in the tools folder the forumhome images and postbit link xml files are in there
I'll add the CMS widget to the next one too.

[Killeglass]

I have the new 4.0 version running and beautiful work. I like the gas mileage banners it generates

Nominated for mod of the month