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 Noerenberg

Right, can you help me

I sent you a pm on it. If your not particular on where the field is we can do it through a plugin. With this version replacing the trim dropdown with a text field isn't too easy, it's tied in a lot of places. With the next version, 2.2.x, it will be easier because I plan on consolidating that code.

[Front Range 4x4]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

You want to set the images/garage/attach folder to 777. When it tries to create a user image in there it will create a folder for each number in the user id. So if user 513 tries to upload an image it will create images/garage/attach/5/1/3/image.jpg

Looks like it works after doing that, thank you Dylan. I'll have time to check it out later.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by lovefords

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.

I'm not sure why the chm is blank. For now I create html documents of it.

http://www.vbprogarage.com/docs/html_vb4_ts/

[cTak]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

I have one for vb3.x that a user contributed. I'll work on making it operational for vb4

Thanks!!

I had this way back in my 3.* days as well.

If the user has more than 1 car in the garage, how will that work?
I'd prefer if it only display 1 car, perhaps the first car listed in that users garage, aka their default car or something?

So it would look like
Location: Green Bay, Wi
Posts: 10,504
Car: 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T
(year/make/model/trim)

I may even take out the make, as my forum is dedicated to mostly Mitsubishi and Eagle cars.

But otherwise so far so good, I'll have to look into purchasing the Pro version soon!

[cTak]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

The images need to be moved into each style's folders. That is actually one of my test templates, I like that one

So move the images from the zip to the forum/cpstyles/darkvision folder

Ok, that was easy enough. Moved the images now they work.

But, the link to view the users garage is not correct.

The link comes up as

http://***.com/forum/{vb:raw mainpage_url?do=user_garage_view&id=6

[cTak]

Originally Posted by cTak

Ok, that was easy enough. Moved the images now they work.

But, the link to view the users garage is not correct.

The link comes up as

http://***.com/forum/{vb:raw mainpage_url?do=user_garage_view&id=6

Fixed.

Missing a } in the garage_vehicle_view template.

<a href="{vb:raw mainpage_url?do=user_garage_view&id={vb:raw vehicle_data[user_id]}" class="garage_viewgarage_rollover" title="{vb:rawphrase garage_txt_view_garage}"></a>

[Trumpetrhapsody]

One request... Maybe I missed it in the options but it would be nice to be able to set the duration each image has when the frontpage is in slideshow mode.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by cTak

Thanks!!

I had this way back in my 3.* days as well.

If the user has more than 1 car in the garage, how will that work?
I'd prefer if it only display 1 car, perhaps the first car listed in that users garage, aka their default car or something?

So it would look like
Location: Green Bay, Wi
Posts: 10,504
Car: 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T
(year/make/model/trim)

I may even take out the make, as my forum is dedicated to mostly Mitsubishi and Eagle cars.

But otherwise so far so good, I'll have to look into purchasing the Pro version soon!

If there is more then one garage it will use the primary vehicle. By default the first vehicle they create is the primary one but they can change their primary one at any time.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Trumpetrhapsody

One request... Maybe I missed it in the options but it would be nice to be able to set the duration each image has when the frontpage is in slideshow mode.

Good idea, I'll make it a vb option in the next release.

[Trumpetrhapsody]

Found another one...

In your VB user profile (not the garage profile), under the Vehicles tab... the thumbnail for each vehicle is squished/stretched instead of maintaining the original aspect ratio of the uploaded picture.

The same picture looks fine throughout all the Garage pages.

Just a picky visual thing, but figured I should mention it :P