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

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by wmguk

Hey,

Excellent Mod, Installed it!!

Just wondered if there is a way to place the random garage images in the sidebar block and remove it off the index page?

Also, how do I add some new fields? I run a forum that installs computers in cars and I need a way for people to add the specifications of the pc to the car?

I haven't done a forum block before, I'm working on getting one done though.

You can add new fields through plugins. If you want you can pm me the fields and their values (things like PC Brand, drop down with such and such values, pc model that's a text field, whatever the names you want for the fields) and I'll create the file for you.

[Kolbi]

Have you tried to work on an importer for DTOGarage?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Have you tried to work on an importer for DTOGarage?

I should have it done soon, just been real busy with the holidays

[kether1]

Thanks for this great modification! I have spent the better part of two days playing with it on my test site and can see so many possibilities. Nice work!

I would like to use your garage system as a 'hobby' garage instead of a 'car' garage but need to add additional fields to do so. There are also fields I would want to remove/ disable completely.

Is it possible to remove some of the fields I would not need? For instance, I would like to disable:

• the Required Year
• Comment notification enable/disable drop-down (as I will not need comments as this would be more of a database with discussion in the forum),
• Trims,
• Mileage,
• and URL fields?

I would also like to disable the Timeslips page or remove the required numerical data and be able to add some drop down choices/ alpha-numeric text fields.

My biggest concern is how do I add some custom fields? Is this possible?

For instance, I would like to add a drop down that has a few choices and include a link like the 'Not Listed?' link so members can add to the list if that feature is enabled in the ACP.

Again, this is excellent work. VB should buy it from you!:up:

Kether

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by kether1

Thanks for this great modification! I have spent the better part of two days playing with it on my test site and can see so many possibilities. Nice work!

I would like to use your garage system as a 'hobby' garage instead of a 'car' garage but need to add additional fields to do so. There are also fields I would want to remove/ disable completely.

Is it possible to remove some of the fields I would not need? For instance, I would like to disable:

• the Required Year
• Comment notification enable/disable drop-down (as I will not need comments as this would be more of a database with discussion in the forum),
• Trims,
• Mileage,
• and URL fields?

I would also like to disable the Timeslips page or remove the required numerical data and be able to add some drop down choices/ alpha-numeric text fields.

My biggest concern is how do I add some custom fields? Is this possible?

For instance, I would like to add a drop down that has a few choices and include a link like the 'Not Listed?' link so members can add to the list if that feature is enabled in the ACP.

Again, this is excellent work. VB should buy it from you!:up:

Kether

You can add custom fields through plugins. You could disable all those fields, but the year is a required field so you'd need to do some tweaking to not have problems.

You can disable the timeslips through the acp, there is an option to have it enabled/disabled.

For the dropdown you might want to utilize a field already there that has that option. Maybe the engine types field? Just rename the phrase for it.

[kether1]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

You can add custom fields through plugins. You could disable all those fields, but the year is a required field so you'd need to do some tweaking to not have problems.

You can disable the timeslips through the acp, there is an option to have it enabled/disabled.

For the dropdown you might want to utilize a field already there that has that option. Maybe the engine types field? Just rename the phrase for it.

Thanks so much! Do you have an example of how to do custom fields with plugins?

I will have another look at the timeslips in the acp. I must have missed that setting somehow.

Thanks again for great work! :up:

Regards,
Kether

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by kether1

Thanks so much! Do you have an example of how to do custom fields with plugins?

I will have another look at the timeslips in the acp. I must have missed that setting somehow.

Thanks again for great work! :up:

Regards,
Kether

PM me your email, I'll send you a product xml I have to add a video field to the vehicle record.

[kether1]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

PM me your email, I'll send you a product xml I have to add a video field to the vehicle record.

Awesome! PM sent.

Kether

[dmorales]

I can't see the location to comment on a vehicle. Did I miss something?

Also how do I remove the Comment notification option and I have a drop down with no name. See attach image.

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

PM me your email, I'll send you a product xml I have to add a video field to the vehicle record.

Can I get this as well?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by dmorales

I can't see the location to comment on a vehicle. Did I miss something?

Also how do I remove the Comment notification option and I have a drop down with no name. See attach image.

Can I get this as well?

PM me your email and I'll send you the file

For the questions
Best way to fix the problem and remove the comment notification:

ACP->Styles and Templates->Style Manager

At your style select Edit Templates
Scroll down to and double click VB Pro Garage Templates
Double Click garage_vehicle_edit

Find

<form action="{vb:raw this_page}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionhash}" />

and replace with

<form action="{vb:raw this_page}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionhash}" />
<input type="hidden" name="comm_notify" value="0" />

Find and delete

        <tr>
        <td width="250"><b>{vb:rawphrase garage_thead_comm_notify}</b>
        </td>
        <td width="*">
<select id="comm_notify" name="comm_notify">
{vb:raw notify_enabled}
</select>
        </td>
        </tr>

Find and delete

        <tr>
        <td><b>{vb:rawphrase garage_fuel_pref}</b>
        </td>
        <td>
<select id="fuel_preference" name="fuel_preference">
{vb:raw fuel_type_option}
</select>
        </td>
        </tr>