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

[Bilderback]

Just a couple questions.
1. [solved]Is there a debug feature so that I can display any errors within the vehicle submit form?
The garage suddenly stopped working = vehicle submissions go to blank page with nothing added.
I can go to Add Vehicle, enter no information and submit empty form with no errors
Solution: If your site is setup to use www. in the domain prefix, it also must be entered with the www. prefix in the garage URL.
My issue was the missing www. prefix so the form began with the prefix and submitted without it.
Most likely a token wasnt being passed.

2. [solved]Are there new features or fixes in the commercial version that do not exist in the free mod?
Solution: http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/sh...censed-version
Thanks

[SimonB]

My vehicle submission form looks really tacky, almost as is it's missing some style information

Not only that but the calendar doesn't display any of the forward/back buttons normally associated with a calendar. Although they are there - you just have to know they exist.

Also, the calender doesn't honour the default date format

[Dylanblitz]

Some of that is known bugs. Look at the bug section up top and the 4th and 5th ones will take care of the extra fields.

If you want to PM me a link with an account that has access I'll take a look at the calendar thing.

Originally Posted by SimonB

My vehicle submission form looks really tacky, almost as is it's missing some style information

Not only that but the calendar doesn't display any of the forward/back buttons normally associated with a calendar. Although they are there - you just have to know they exist.

Also, the calender doesn't honour the default date format

[SimonB]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Some of that is known bugs. Look at the bug section up top and the 4th and 5th ones will take care of the extra fields.

If you want to PM me a link with an account that has access I'll take a look at the calendar thing.

Thanks. I didn't pick up on the bug list - will attend to that when I get the chance.

I'll send you the PM.

[SimonB]

Originally Posted by SimonB

Thanks. I didn't pick up on the bug list - will attend to that when I get the chance.

I'll send you the PM.

Cool. Done and sorted

[SimonB]

I'm having a problem caused by the garage dropdown template.

The places it is enabled (postbit and member profile) causes template code at appear in text

Any idea what I need to do to fix?

I have re-uploaded all the files as well as reload the XML

[SimonB]

Originally Posted by SimonB

I'm having a problem caused by the garage dropdown template.

The places it is enabled (postbit and member profile) causes template code at appear in text

Any idea what I need to do to fix?

I have re-uploaded all the files as well as reload the XML

OK I picked it up in the bug list above, but
a) I cant change the User Profile Field length because it asks me to complete all fields (so I'm guessing some are mandatory (EDIT: - managed to get the profile field changed)
b) when I rebuild the postbits I get the following error

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/admincp/garage_manage.php on line 695

And I end up with this

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by SimonB

OK I picked it up in the bug list above, but
a) I cant change the User Profile Field length because it asks me to complete all fields (so I'm guessing some are mandatory (EDIT: - managed to get the profile field changed)
b) when I rebuild the postbits I get the following error


And I end up with this

Sorry about all the problems, I can't wait til I get some time to update this thing heh.

One thing to try. Open admincp/garage_manage.php

On line 693 you'll see

PHP Code:

$style = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "style WHERE styleid = " . $selected_style); 


Right above that put

PHP Code:

$selected_style = 1; 


Replace the "1" with whatever your styleid is.

Let me know if that fixes it.

[KTP]

tried to install this on 4.2.0

it wont let me install the language xml
and upon importing the garage xml i get this error

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(vehicle_id) AS vehicles FROM _vb4garage_user_vehicle WHERE active = '0';

MySQL Error   : Table 'xxx_vb4._vb4garage_user_vehicle' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Friday, August 10th 2012 @ 06:27:26 PM
Error Date    : Friday, August 10th 2012 @ 06:27:26 PM
Script        : http://www.xxx
Referrer      : http://www.xxx
IP Address    : xx.xxx.xx.xxx
Username      : xxx
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.23-55

it looks like its adding a "." at the end of my database prefix "vb4." when it should just be "vb4"
not sure how to fix this or if this info is of any help to you?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by KTP

tried to install this on 4.2.0

it wont let me install the language xml
and upon importing the garage xml i get this error

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(vehicle_id) AS vehicles FROM _vb4garage_user_vehicle WHERE active = '0';

MySQL Error   : Table 'xxx_vb4._vb4garage_user_vehicle' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Friday, August 10th 2012 @ 06:27:26 PM
Error Date    : Friday, August 10th 2012 @ 06:27:26 PM
Script        : http://www.xxx
Referrer      : http://www.xxx
IP Address    : xx.xxx.xx.xxx
Username      : xxx
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.23-55

it looks like its adding a "." at the end of my database prefix "vb4." when it should just be "vb4"
not sure how to fix this or if this info is of any help to you?

That's a first for me, never seen that one before. Is the table actually there? Not sure where that code is running at. There is no table that starts with _vb4 so that's getting messed up as well.