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 venom2124

Trying to upload the language file, but it tell me



never uploaded a language so not really sure if I was doing that right anyways.

Ah okay, you don't want to create a new language. You want to set it like I have shown in the documentation. Basically, select the language file, select the language (english if that's the language on the site) in the overwrite language field and Yes for ignore language version.

I know the overwrite seems weird but it will only overwrite phrases with the same name. All the prhases in the file start with garage_, which is not used by vb, so you wont overwrite anything in the core language.

[venom2124]

Okay got the language issue worked out, but now when I go live I get the following error;

Fatal error: Call to undefined function most_modified_block() in /home/content/c/o/l/coloradohpj/html/forums/garage.php on line 575

Any idea why?

[Dylanblitz]

Yeah it's left over code from the full version. Since you can't run sql queries it limits us a bit. btw, if you have ftp access you can set it so you can run sql queries

I'm working on a new package, should have it ready in the next half hour or so, since you can't run queries you're going to need to uninstall the garage and reinstall it with the new package. It will remove the block entries and recreate them, minus the erroneous one.

You wont need to reimport the language or make/model file though, just upload the new files and import the new product.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by venom2124

Okay got the language issue worked out, but now when I go live I get the following error;



Any idea why?

Just posted a new file, do what I suggested in the above post, should work now.

Sorry about the problems.


Trumpetrhapsody, let me know if this new package helps your problem. Hopefully it does

[ahmedipa]

it is looks like vbgallery

[cTak]

Love the mod so far, working great.

Is there a way to add someones car to their postbit info?

Year/Make/Model/Trim ?

[cTak]

Also, I use a the style, "DarkVision - Premium vBulletin 4 Skins" ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231695 )

The Add Comment and View User Garage Buttons do not show up.

How can I add them to this template?

[Trumpetrhapsody]

The update seems to have fixed the install issue, permissions issue, and missing table issue... but I still get a blank page.

I didn't uninstall and reinstall though... I just re-uploaded the files, re-imported and overwrote the xml, and re-imported the language file. Might try a fresh install later in the day.

New/Related issue:
I added a timeslip, and when I clicked Add to import an image, it takes me to garage_timeslips.php... but it's a blank page. Manually navigating to that page shows something, but it looks incomplete?

[Front Range 4x4]

Looks like it's getting close! My latest attempt shows everything appearing as it should but when adding a vehicle I get the following:

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1723

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/garage/attach/1/garage_vehicle-1-12671961431_full.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/garage_func_var.php on line 1798

[lovefords]

I have worked through all of the directions above, including Overwrite English, and I get this install error:

This file was created using a different version of vBulletin from the one you are running.

Your version: 4.0.2
File version: 3.7.4

also, the .cmh help file is completely blank for content, just the framework is there.

I would buy the Pro version if I can get the free one installed correctly first.