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

[Front Range 4x4]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do?

Put the white frame around the pics.

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

Frame around the photos <--

Thanks Mr_Running, that's my post on how to do it in the albums. I was having trouble doing it for the garage files, must have been a brain-dead moment. Here's my garage.

[Mr_Running]

Looks like it's figured out?

[bosken]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

The error you are getting means that php doesn't have the permissions to move the file from the tmp folder to the users image directory. When a user uploads a picture it will try to create the subfolders if the user hasn't uploaded one before and move the image to it. What permissions are set on the images/garage/attach folder?



First you have to disable to old navigation
ACP->Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager
Find Garage Menu Button and uncheck the box then Save

Now to create the new one
ACP->Plugins & Products->Add New Plugin
Product: VP Pro Garage
Hook Location: navigation_tab_complete
Title: Garage Menu Button 4.2
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code: Copy and paste the contents of the attached text file into that box.
Plugin is Active: Yes

That should give you the navigation back. Let me know if you have any problems.

Or you could create them manually

Tried this, got the tab back but wont take me to the garage, just stays on forum tab.
If I hoover the mouse pointer over the Garage tab the URL just point to main forum main URL, if i manually write http://myfoum/garage.php all works

When adding the tab i new VB nav manager, tab works, but all submenus are gone.

[bosken]

Here is how the tab looks like in VB Nav manager. This brings me the tab but submenus are gone.
What am I missing or doing wrong?

[bosken]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

First you have to disable to old navigation
ACP->Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager
Find Garage Menu Button and uncheck the box then Save

I can only make following settings on this. Enabled or Admin only. no disable.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by bosken

I can only make following settings on this. Enabled or Admin only. no disable.

You need to go to plugin manager, not settings.

[bosken]

Ahhh. Great, that fixed all my issues now thank you!

[zahool]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Look in the garage_css template.
Find

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;}

and replace it with

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,blockquote{padding:0;}

That should fix it. Let me know if it doesn't.

I tried without margin , still aligning to the left. Please advise

[ExoticAgenda]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Look in the garage_css template.
Find

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;}

and replace it with

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,blockquote{padding:0;}

That should fix it. Let me know if it doesn't.

Hey DylanBlitz,

I am working with another style that did the same as the last one, it left justified everything. I made the above change but it did not work. Would anything in additional.css overrule your css? Thanks

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by zahool

I tried without margin , still aligning to the left. Please advise

Originally Posted by ExoticAgenda

Hey DylanBlitz,

I am working with another style that did the same as the last one, it left justified everything. I made the above change but it did not work. Would anything in additional.css overrule your css? Thanks

what vb version are you guys using? and is it a vb.org style I can test out?