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

[oly51]

Originally Posted by gnatster

Rideharder...

I'll check this out. In the meantime please create a users directory in images/dto_garage and set the permissions level to 777.

Thanks...

Nathan
Director - Product Support
Drive Thru Online - Turning Passion into Profit

That's what I had to do in order to be able to upload photos. The download has a "/dto_garage/images" folder not the "/dto_garage/users" folder mentioned above.

BTW, the garage link in the postbit is not showing up for me in regular or legacy views.

Edit: Fixed as I was posting

[gnatster]

Originally Posted by oly51

That's what I had to do in order to be able to upload photos. The download has a "/dto_garage/images" folder not the "/dto_garage/users" folder mentioned above.

BTW, the garage link in the postbit is not showing up for me in regular or legacy views.

Edit: Fixed as I was posting

Yeah...I was lacking coffee when I wrote that. I have fixed that post and fixed the lack of coffee issue as well.

[Rideharder]

Originally Posted by gnatster

To add a vehicle to the garage go to the UserCP. There is a My Garage section added. Click on Add Garage to enter the vehicle information.

I would mention this first to the gentleman



usercp.php$session

C.Click on Find.
D.From the results select USERCP_SHELL and click on Edit.
E.Search again for the same text as above, depending on the vBulletin version the result will return a section similar to:
<tr><td class="tcat" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[your_control_panel]</a></td></tr>
Note: After selecting Find you may need to scroll within the window slightly in order to display the highlighted search terms.



F.Paste the following text after the </tr>
$template_hook[usercp_navbar_top]
G.Save and exit.

[SonicGT]

Installed works great, but I am not getting the postbit, I am using the newer postbit not legacy and nothing shows up.
When I go to my garage it shows there with the default postbit (not my modified one) but elsewhere it is not visible
Screencaps

My normal postbit


The postbit that shows up when I open my garage



I would also like to see the option of removing the navmenu item. With just the FAQ it seems to take up space, would like to see the option to move this to the user CP instead.

[gnatster]

Originally Posted by SonicGT

Installed works great, but I am not getting the postbit, I am using the newer postbit not legacy and nothing shows up.
When I go to my garage it shows there with the default postbit (not my modified one) but elsewhere it is not visible
Screencaps

My normal postbit


The postbit that shows up when I open my garage



I would also like to see the option of removing the navmenu item. With just the FAQ it seems to take up space, would like to see the option to move this to the user CP instead.

What mods do you have in the postbit please?

I'd like to test them on our test site and see if there is a conflict of some sort.

[SonicGT]

Originally Posted by gnatster

What mods do you have in the postbit please?

I'd like to test them on our test site and see if there is a conflict of some sort.

I have
[sniper] mood manager 1.2.5 link
last seen online (postbit) link

other then that its just custom code using profile fileds and if statements for a few profile fields like this

<if condition="$post[field7] != ''"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/$post[field7]" target="_blank">
<img src="images/misc/im_myspace.gif" title="View myspace profile" border="0"></a>
                </if>
                                <!-- Myspace display end -->

[Rideharder]

Uninstalled decided just to go with VbGarage 3.5
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...+Garage&page=5

Works excellent good with 3.8

I deftly think the price is a little bit steep for the full version .. if you guys decide to lower the price please PM me.

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by SonicGT

Installed works great, but I am not getting the postbit, I am using the newer postbit not legacy and nothing shows up.
When I go to my garage it shows there with the default postbit (not my modified one) but elsewhere it is not visible
Screencaps

My normal postbit


The postbit that shows up when I open my garage



I would also like to see the option of removing the navmenu item. With just the FAQ it seems to take up space, would like to see the option to move this to the user CP instead.

Do you have a garage entry added for your garage and the entry visible to other members? The link will only show up if you have a garage entry defined and it is made visible to others.

If this is a case, as Nathan mentions, it may be a conflict of some sort with other plugins you may have. Nathan will test these against our installation and we'll let you know what we find.

Thanks!

Mark

[mferguson]

Originally Posted by Rideharder

Uninstalled decided just to go with VbGarage 3.5
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...+Garage&page=5

Works excellent good with 3.8

I deftly think the price is a little bit steep for the full version .. if you guys decide to lower the price please PM me.

Sorry to hear that you decided not to use Garage. The paid version includes a number of SEO features, usergroup permission-based garage allocation, and advanced browse and search functions (these appear in the nav menu along with the documentation for users). Additionally the price also includes free installation service.

One thing that is a little different from other mods is that we have a full-time team of three and all we work on are vBulletin products and plugins. While other products may be cheaper or free you likely won't receive the level of support, documentation, and ability to provide input into what comes in future releases that we provide our customers.

Sometime in the future I hope you'll revisit working with our products and our team.

Best regards,

Mark

[SonicGT]

Originally Posted by mferguson

Do you have a garage entry added for your garage and the entry visible to other members? The link will only show up if you have a garage entry defined and it is made visible to others.

If this is a case, as Nathan mentions, it may be a conflict of some sort with other plugins you may have. Nathan will test these against our installation and we'll let you know what we find.

Thanks!

Mark

Yea I set it to show up, logged in as my test user account and went to my normal users profile page and the garage tab was there and I could view it from there.
I set the 2 plugins to off per the settings they have and still didn't show up. Only thing I haven't tried was disable or uninstall them completly.

*EDIT*
I just went and disabled both plugins via the plugin page and still did not get the garage link. So the only thing I haven't done is uninstall them.
Is there some code I can manually add to my postbit for the link? even if it doesn't have the hoverover function that would be ok with me at this point.