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]

The only way is to move the template hook where the link gets inserted. This will be in your postbit or postbit legacy template. Keep in mind though that if you have any other mods that also utilize this templat hook location that those will move location as well.

Thanks

Mark

[Feign]

Thanks for the reply Mark.

Hope that I don't misunderstand what you said; I would have to move the entire "$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]" ?

I've been trying to integrate it into the $post[postid] popup menu. I've gotten as far as inserting text into that field (Username's Garage) but, it will not link to the user's garage. This is all that I am after. So, I'd like to do away with the entire notion of a popup including the standard "Garage" link and popup. Is it not possible?

[mferguson]

In the postbit template there are the following template_hook locations:

postbit_start
postbit_userinfo_left
postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts
postbit_userinfo_right
postbit_messagearea_start
postbit_signature_start
postbit_signature_end
postbit_controls
postbit_end
postbit_user_popup

in our DTO Garage Postbit Pop-up Menu plugin we use the postbit_userinfo_right template hook.

If you are trying to change the popup menu that we provide to something that only shows the a link to that user's garage you would need to rewrite what the above mentioned plugin is doing. Effectively you would need to query the database to find the id of the user's garage entry and then, if a id was retrieved, return a link that would look something like the following:

http://www.yoursitehere.com/forums/d...ehicle_id=1028

where the vehicle_id value is whatever you retrieved from your database query.

In our paid product the popup menu shows all the garages that a person may have so this was the reason we didn't do this in the free version.

Hope this helps a bit.

Thanks

Mark

[Feign]

Understood. It does help a lot Mark. I appreciate the reply back. I may hit you up again.

[karabaja3]

Hi there!

Could you tell me please what table and value do I need to alter using phpMyAdmin if I want to reassign Garage profile from one mebmer to another?

[gnatster]

The table is `DTO_garage_vehicle`

Value would be 'userid' as it corresponds to the users numerical id

[Jimmy_z]

.zip wouldn't open on my machine (mac) said I have the wrong permissions. But DID open when downloaded from developers site.

Not sure what was going on there

[karabaja3]

Hi there!

Is it possible to run SQL query to set all garages from 'hidden' to 'public'?

[gnatster]

Originally Posted by karabaja3

Hi there!

Is it possible to run SQL query to set all garages from 'hidden' to 'public'?

Yes, you will want to change the entry in the field "display" in the table "DTO_garage_vehicle" from "0" to "1"

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by gnatster

Yes, you will want to change the entry in the field "display" in the table "DTO_garage_vehicle" from "0" to "1"

Would this be the correct SQL query syntax for that?

UPDATE DTO_garage_vehicle SET display = "1" WHERE display = "0"