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

[Jenkins]

I'm unable to approve new trim/engine/model suggestions. I get the PM that a new model has been suggested, but when I click the "Approve" link there is nothing to approve.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Jenkins

I'm unable to approve new trim/engine/model suggestions. I get the PM that a new model has been suggested, but when I click the "Approve" link there is nothing to approve.

It might just be bringing you to the main approval area page. There should be links under there to select the different types of items that need to be approved.

Also, if you go to the main garage page, you should see links to any items that are awaiting approval.

[BlackJacket]

I am getting this error when i upload new images -

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1728

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-1-12846935761_full.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1805

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phprDlYNW' to 'images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-1-12846935761_full.jpg' in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1805

Any idea why?

Thanks again.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by BlackJacket

I am getting this error when i upload new images -

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1728

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-1-12846935761_full.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1805

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phprDlYNW' to 'images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-1-12846935761_full.jpg' in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1805

Any idea why?

Thanks again.

I'm sorry, I didn't get notified there was a new reply.
That happens because the permissions on the attach folder aren't working.
Try setting the images/garage/attach and all of it's sub folders to 777.

[dvanderk]

Im having an issue. When users upload images in the garage, it lets you click it, but nothing happens, as if it wont allow a popup image? Please help.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by dvanderk

Im having an issue. When users upload images in the garage, it lets you click it, but nothing happens, as if it wont allow a popup image? Please help.

Can you post or pm me a link to the site so I can check it out?

[goowa]

Originally Posted by customcolor

thanks!!

here it is....our garage....um...Tank Bio page

fox valley reef club member tank bios

Question to CustomColor or DylanBlitz.
Love Garage! My problem is I'm using it for mostly boats. What I need to figure out is how to modify the input fields as was done for the aquarium site. For instance I have no need for mileage, purchase date, etc. But I need things like length, number of engines, etc.

Can someone point me to where I would start looking to make these edits?

Thanks in advance.

[deschutes]

Use phrase manager to find the instances of the category, name, etc and replace them with the syntax you want. I did this on my site at www.sledspace.com to fit snowmobiles better as well. A little tedious, but it works great.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by goowa

Question to CustomColor or DylanBlitz.
Love Garage! My problem is I'm using it for mostly boats. What I need to figure out is how to modify the input fields as was done for the aquarium site. For instance I have no need for mileage, purchase date, etc. But I need things like length, number of engines, etc.

Can someone point me to where I would start looking to make these edits?

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by deschutes

Use phrase manager to find the instances of the category, name, etc and replace them with the syntax you want. I did this on my site at www.sledspace.com to fit snowmobiles better as well. A little tedious, but it works great.

Alternately, if the fields don't fit what you need it to do (i.e. you need a dropdown) you can also add new fields through the plugin system. I can create the file for you if you pm me what fields you want and values. In the next few versions I plan to have it so you can add custom fields through the ACP fairly easily.

To remove fields you don't need, if they are not required fields, you can remove them from the templates without harm. The vehicle templates you need to edit are garage_vehicle_edit and garage_vehicle_view.

[bigworm50]

When I go to the bottom of the main page to the browse vehicle box, which is grouped by Generation and click on one that has 32 vehicles, I get a page with the first 25, but when I click on the link for the second page I get a message

Search Results
No Listings in the database at this time.

The first page the url is

/forum/garage.php?do=browse_model&front_model_id=1

but the second page it is

/forum/garage.php?do=search_results&sort=date_updated&order=DESC&front_model_id=1&page=2

I found that if I use

/forum/garage.php?do=browse_model&front_model_id=1&page=2

it gives the expected results.

Let me know if I need to supply any further information, or if the problem is on my end..

Thanks for the great mod!