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

[rfsforums]

I just installed and am getting the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/*********/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php(4090) : eval()'d code on line 132

any ideas?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by rfsforums

I just installed and am getting the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/*********/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php(4090) : eval()'d code on line 132

any ideas?

I'm not sure what would be causing that?
I would normally say it's a product error but since noone else has come up with that the only thing I can think of is it's conflicting with another addon.

[rfsforums]

I've been testing this and I've been changing the phrases to better fit our use which is not automotive related. Do you or do you know someone who will take on paid work to further modify this to fit our needs?
I've looked at some paid packages and this seems to offer several more user features and it's free

[daniel_pet]

Anyone running this on 4.1.4
I want to upgrade and really like this mod so I want to ensure it will work first

Yes on my test site.
Does not work for me.
There are many problems like, on add vehicle
Trim - after approval deleted from the database.
Description - There are two fields, the second does nothing and no description.
missing phrases in admin panel buttons - generation, and many others.

pity, I love the product and like to use it.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by daniel_pet

Yes on my test site.
Does not work for me.
There are many problems like, on add vehicle
Trim - after approval deleted from the database.
Description - There are two fields, the second does nothing and no description.
missing phrases in admin panel buttons - generation, and many others.

pity, I love the product and like to use it.

The fields are in there by accident. You can edit the garage_vehicle_edit template to remove them.
Try reimporting the language file, all the phrases should be there.

[Mark4865]

Hello Dylan,

Can you tell me exactly what code needs to removed in the template garage_vehicle_edit template please as I would like to remove these extra fields and dont want to remove anything critical. Would alslo like to remove the nickname field.

thanks in advance for the help

[av8or1]

Dylan,

I looked for this in the thread to-date but the search didn't show anything. For our automotive forum we don't really need the timeslips and such, as these cars are hardly "performance" vehicles. However they are put in shows often, so we'd like to have a "show report" type of page instead.

Can I configure that within AdminCP or would it require a code modification? I'm thinking it's the latter, but thought I would check with you first.

Thanks!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Mark4865

Hello Dylan,

Can you tell me exactly what code needs to removed in the template garage_vehicle_edit template please as I would like to remove these extra fields and dont want to remove anything critical. Would alslo like to remove the nickname field.

thanks in advance for the help

Open template garage_vehicle_edit

Find and delete

        <tr>
        <td><b>{vb:rawphrase garage_thead_nick}</b>
        </td>
        <td>
<input type="text" id="nickname" name="nickname" maxlength="70" size="45" value="{vb:raw my_vehicle_data[nickname]}">
        </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>

That will remove the nickname field and the blank field.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by av8or1

Dylan,

I looked for this in the thread to-date but the search didn't show anything. For our automotive forum we don't really need the timeslips and such, as these cars are hardly "performance" vehicles. However they are put in shows often, so we'd like to have a "show report" type of page instead.

Can I configure that within AdminCP or would it require a code modification? I'm thinking it's the latter, but thought I would check with you first.

Thanks!

Yes you would need to modify the code for something like that. You could probably tweak the timeslips page to work as a show page. Depends on what kind of fields you want.

[Mark4865]

thanks for support Dylan will do that