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 thebucky84

Is there a fix so every time someone adds a vehicle I don't have to go into the Admincp and reset vehicle and trim count?

Not yet, I can't figure out where the problem is on it, the code looks right. You could turn that block off if you want for now until I get it worked out.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by maupz

Thanks but the issue persist!

The whole forum body is center like this vbuletin.org forum but when I open the garage everythign appears to the left.

On the other hand, I'm almost finishing the spanish translation if you are interested in include in your downloads.

Regards

Did you download the style from here? It sounds like it's a style issue. The default style will have it centered without having to add anything. I'd like to get ahold of the style to try and figure it out, hard to troubleshoot the problem if I can play with it heh.

[markis13446]

Thanks for all the support Dylanblitz,

Two other issues:

- The timeslips on the Garage mainpage is not showing ascending. It looks like its grabbing the middlge of the pack. I tried adjusting settings with no luck.
- Some vehicles cant be rated, why is this? Some have ratings, but now can longer be rated.

[zeus_r6]

Did a fix ever come up with skewing the display of subforums when enabling the random garage images in IE?

[g00gl3r]

Dylanblitz,

Firstly what a brilliant mod. Rated Excellent and nominated for MOTM for you.

I've installed it all, but I have VBSEO running and it appears when I add the htaccess code, and turn on the SE friendly URL's, I get "page not found".

Does it conflict with VBSEO? I can't seem to find anything after a quick search in this thread.

[sekel]

Hi, I love this add-on. One question though, is it possible that when a user clicks on a username, it links to their profile instead of the cars in their garage? Thanks in advance.

[trophyrider]

I keep getting this database error when deleting a vehicle from the garage. I also get a similar error emailed to me when someone adds a vehicle to the garage. Any ideas?

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_userfield SET field43 = '
<div class=\"imlinks\">
<div class=\"popupmenu vehicleaction\">
<a class=\"popupctrl\" href=\"#\"><strong>Motorcycles</strong></a>
<ul class=\"popupbody popuphover vehicleaction_body\">

<li class=\"left\"><a href=\"http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_vehicle.php?do=view_vehicle&amp;id=251\"><i mg src=\"images/garage/attach/7/0/6/garage_vehicle-251-13125381311_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"View Motorcycle\" width=\"75\" border=\"0\" />2011 Ducati MultiStrada S Touring</a></li>

</ul>
</div>
</div><br />

' WHERE userid = '706';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'field43' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, September 10th 2011 @ 10:43:11 PM
Error Date : Saturday, September 10th 2011 @ 10:43:12 PM
Script : http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_ve...vehicle&id=250
Referrer : http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_ve...vehicle&id=250
IP Address : 50.41.141.155
Username : VersysRider
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.92-community

[Dylanblitz]

Sorry, been a busy couple of weeks with kids, vacation and inlaws in town.

Originally Posted by markis13446

Thanks for all the support Dylanblitz,

Two other issues:

- The timeslips on the Garage mainpage is not showing ascending. It looks like its grabbing the middlge of the pack. I tried adjusting settings with no luck.
- Some vehicles cant be rated, why is this? Some have ratings, but now can longer be rated.

You should be able to adjust the asc/desc in the ACP. Let me know if you've done that and it doesn't work. I haven't heard of that being a problem anywhere else.
Vehicles can only be rated once by a user. Have you rated those vehicles or not seeing the ability to rate on something you haven't rated?

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Did a fix ever come up with skewing the display of subforums when enabling the random garage images in IE?

I can't replicate the problem, I'm not sure what's causing it

Originally Posted by g00gl3r

Dylanblitz,

Firstly what a brilliant mod. Rated Excellent and nominated for MOTM for you.

I've installed it all, but I have VBSEO running and it appears when I add the htaccess code, and turn on the SE friendly URL's, I get "page not found".

Does it conflict with VBSEO? I can't seem to find anything after a quick search in this thread.

Yes, vBSEO takes over all friendly URL's on the forum. You need to either create custom vBSEO rules and not use mine or disable the garage from vBSEO in the htaccess file. It's a bit tricky to disable it as you have to plan out your naming, but I've had it work on 3 of the 4 I tried. The 4th would not turn of vBSEO on the garage for some reason I couldn't figure out.

Originally Posted by sekel

Hi, I love this add-on. One question though, is it possible that when a user clicks on a username, it links to their profile instead of the cars in their garage? Thanks in advance.

You could change it. You would need to open includes/garage_func_var.php and find

$user_link = $vbulletin->options[garage_url_path] . 'garage.php?do=user_garage_view&id=' . $user_id;

to change it.

Originally Posted by trophyrider

I keep getting this database error when deleting a vehicle from the garage. I also get a similar error emailed to me when someone adds a vehicle to the garage. Any ideas?

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb_userfield SET field43 = '
<div class=\"imlinks\">
<div class=\"popupmenu vehicleaction\">
<a class=\"popupctrl\" href=\"#\"><strong>Motorcycles</strong></a>
<ul class=\"popupbody popuphover vehicleaction_body\">

<li class=\"left\"><a href=\"http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_vehicle.php?do=view_vehicle&amp;id=251\"><i mg src=\"images/garage/attach/7/0/6/garage_vehicle-251-13125381311_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"View Motorcycle\" width=\"75\" border=\"0\" />2011 Ducati MultiStrada S Touring</a></li>

</ul>
</div>
</div><br />

' WHERE userid = '706';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'field43' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, September 10th 2011 @ 10:43:11 PM
Error Date : Saturday, September 10th 2011 @ 10:43:12 PM
Script : http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_ve...vehicle&id=250
Referrer : http://www.sporttouring.us/garage_ve...vehicle&id=250
IP Address : 50.41.141.155
Username : VersysRider
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.92-community

It looks like the custom user field isn't there for the postbit dropdown. You could create it pretty easily if you have mysql access or you could remove the code to write to it. Unfortunately it's hard coded to that field so you can't just create a new one.

[sekel]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

You could change it. You would need to open includes/garage_func_var.php and find

$user_link = $vbulletin->options[garage_url_path] . 'garage.php?do=user_garage_view&id=' . $user_id;

to change it.

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I'm not too good with coding, what would i need to replace that line with? Thanks in advance!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by sekel

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I'm not too good with coding, what would i need to replace that line with? Thanks in advance!

Change it to

$user_link = 'member.php?u=' . $user_id;

That should work