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

[Mark4865]

hello Dylan,

hope do I get rid of the block showing the BB code and the direct link code on the individual vehicle page please

Fantastic mod

[Mark4865]

Can you also confirm users can edit and delete their own vehicles without having admin permissions

If so how do I set this up

[RollaJedi]

Hello

I was trying to install this and got to the part about installing the language pack in the languages and phrases area.

When i try to do this, it comes back with this message:

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

Your version: 4.1.4
File version: 3.7.4


So, i can't see any of the words in the settings area at all.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by MotMann

User can't see Garage. But they have permissions. What shell i do?
And i try to change the phrases to german, but that's mosly not going.. need help

Sorry, I didn't see this MotMann, did you get it worked out? Let me know if you didn't, I'll be glad to help. If they can't see the garage then most likely the nav button is set to admin only still. Its in the vB Options/Garage General Settings tab.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Mark4865

hello Dylan,

hope do I get rid of the block showing the BB code and the direct link code on the individual vehicle page please

Fantastic mod

The bbcode and direct link are only visible to the admin and vehicle owner. But if you do want to remove it
In the ACP go to Options/Garage Vehicle Settings

Find the option for Enable Direct and BBCode links? and set it to disabled.

As far as permissions to edit/delete, if a user can create vehicles they can edit and delete their own vehicles. There is no special permissions to set for this.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

Hello

I was trying to install this and got to the part about installing the language pack in the languages and phrases area.

When i try to do this, it comes back with this message:

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

Your version: 4.1.4
File version: 3.7.4


So, i can't see any of the words in the settings area at all.

When you import the language file you want to select Yes for Ignore Language Version.

[RollaJedi]

just tried this but it comes back with this now:

The file you attempted to import only contains phrases and none of the settings required. You will be unable to make a new language with this file.

i'm affraid to overwrite the english language one

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by RollaJedi

just tried this but it comes back with this now:

The file you attempted to import only contains phrases and none of the settings required. You will be unable to make a new language with this file.

i'm affraid to overwrite the english language one

That's the only way to do it. I don't use any OOB phrases, so you wont be overwriting any stock phrases, it will just add the garage phrases to the existing.

[RollaJedi]

Ok, thanks! One more question though. How could i get the navbar button to say something beside 'Garage'? Thanks!

[RollaJedi]

nevermind, i got it!