Yes, folks, it's the moment you have all been waiting for.
Granted some of you might not have known it..
On Friday (8th June, 2007) evening at 10pm we will be taking the board down for an hour or so to add spangly new functionality to the forum in the shape of an online Garage.
If you want to see a what functionality it will have then have a look at m http://www.phpbbgarage.com/phpBB3/ (http://www.phpbbgarage.com/phpBB3/) m - although we will not be moving to phpBB3 just yet, so the look and feel will be quite different.
Suffice to say you will all be able to create your own Garage (we are allowing one vehicle for now), add pictures, modifications to your vehicle, insurance details, dyno plots and quarter mile times.
Exciting, no?
There will be a few other little tweaks to try and reduce our database size by limiting some useless search terms from appearing in the database, and to try and stem the automated spam-bot signups, but nothing that should be apparent to you all - of course if you do spot anything after the fact, post up in Feedback and I'll get right on it.
I expect the down-time to last no longer than an hour (unless something horribly unexpected happens!) from 10pm, so we should be back up and running by 11pm.
But you'll all be out on the beers anyway, right? Or, as they say over on SpyderChat - just go drive your dman cars! s;) ;) s;)
That is cool.
Thanks Aaron and other mods!
Wow this is a great feature! Hats off to you aaron!
V cool mate nice one!!!!!!!!
Got your backups in place?? s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted: s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Should be good.
Simon
'Bout bloody time.
s;) ;) s;)
Can't wait ... but I still have no idea how it works s:oops: :oops: s:oops: s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Aaron, you're a star.
thats why you need an Aaron,
Sean and I were neither of us comfortable enough, so we press ganged teh expertise :-) :-) :-)
Nice one Aaron.
Not so nice one Mark, i now have a horrible image in my mind of you and Stu "press ganging" aaron. s:scared: :scared: s:scared:
and a s if thats not bad enough you just had to share with trh ret of us s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
cheers Craig s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
And just a reminder - this will be happening very shortly!
Hold on to your hats, folks.
And we are all done folks!
The Garage (http://www.mr2roc.org/phpBB2/garage.php) is here s:) :) s:)
If you find any problems, post up (in Feedback) and I'll get right on them ASAP.
The eagle eyed among you may notice a Spell Checking option in the post window - that's, erm, not meant to be there yet s;) ;) s;) So er.. it'll be disappearing in a moment!
Thank god for that, the cow's bloody ugly!
And I have FF to spell check for me s8) 8) s8)
Added my car, will sort out my mods some what later.
Tried to add Toyota dealership as a new person to buy things off and got an error. Stupidly didn't write it down so no idea what is was now. I sound like a user.... s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Added Dev though!
Simon
I'd just like to say thanks Aaron for sorting this out. s8) 8) s8)
this is grand, i shall now be removing my imoc garage! s:D :D s:D
Quote from: "loadswine"I'd just like to say thanks Aaron for sorting this out. s8) 8) s8)
Ditto; top dog s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Its a great modification, good to see here too - Nice work Aaron.
Nice features include being able to produce tables of cars like power, 1/4 mile, most spent etc (although this can be a shock once you've entered all your modifications!)
I know Esmond is hard at work on phpBB3 based developments s:) :) s:)
added my car. Great vehicles guys!
Nice work Aaron.
You need to spend more money broudie s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Quote from: "spit"Nice work Aaron.
You need to spend more money broudie s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Its on order s;) ;) s;)
Nice work Aaron. Looks excellent!
(Noticed a "VXR220" - whatever one of those is - top of the 'Most Rated' list... so a quick "un point" has dropped this interloper out of the top 5 s:lol: :lol: s:lol: s:P :P s:P )
Which lucky one of us has taken theirs to the moon and back........
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2130/bigmileageqs4.jpg) (http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigmileageqs4.jpg)
Steve
Anyone else a little shocked when you see all your mods listed with price and see how much you've spent!
Now I've got to hide the page from Jess.
Simon
Quote from: "SimonC_Here"Anyone else a little shocked when you see all your mods listed with price and see how much you've spent!
Now I've got to hide the page from Jess.
Simon
Yes!! And I haven't finished yet.
Not telling Alison anything about this add-on s:wink: :wink: s:wink: Already spent more than a turbo cost - and she said I couldn't have that because we had "better" things to spend our money on.
Quote from: "Jigwar"Which lucky one of us has taken theirs to the moon and back........
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2130/bigmileageqs4.jpg) (http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigmileageqs4.jpg)
Steve
Well that would be mine then, as the name would say on it! s:wink: :wink: s:wink: Will amend - not even started on the mods yet!
Just for the record guys, if you find that you've put a mod in and then it disppears, this may be due to me: I've now got sole control over the day-to-day editing of what people put in, and for the most part I'm approving 99% of them. Occasionally I change one (for example if someone has tried to put Silverstone Performance in again when there's already a listing for them), and even less rarely I reject one completely as it's obviously wrong. Given that I'm currently getting 10 PMs per hour automatically generated by the system I really haven't got the time to reply to each and every person who's listing I change slightly (although I will do this in the future when there's not so many people adding stuff all the time).
I apologise now if I've already messed something up for someone, but you can only imagine what a slow process this is. If you feel that I've changed/deleted your listing wrongly, then please PM me directly and we'll sort it out this end (well, either I'll let you re-submit it or I'll pester Aaron to change it if I've really cocked it up s;) ;) s;) ).
Thanks for bearing with us on this.
Dan
Oh... Auto PM's s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
This could be fun... s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Simon
No abusing Dan s;) ;) s;)
I can always ban people from the Garage s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
Thats where my Dyno print went then - no worries I will put it back later. s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
I thought I approved yours Liz? Certainly I don't remember taking it off the default 'approval' setting in the drop-down box...
Still, anything's possible, so sorry! s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Is there a restiction to how many photos we can have in the garage, ive only got three but when i try to add another it keeps saying the threshold is met and that i need to delete another!
There is a restriction to how many you can have hosted by ROC, yes - but it should be 5, not 3..
You should be able to add further photos as long as you link to offsite images for now, and I'll check it out when I get home.
well suppose it doesnt matter then, i was going to try and post a picture relating to each mod, some 50 or so!
Host em on imageshack or some place and you can have as many as you want!
Simon
Actually there's a limit for off-site images too - but it's much easier for us to increase that as we don't need to think about disk space or bandwidth s:) :) s:)
For ease i was taking my images from my laptop but i do have these images saved in a photobucket album!
Glad you all like it!! You can not imagine the hours/days/weeks/months of effort that have gone into it!!
Oh and running 1.2.0 which is still BETA live s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
Anyway on phpBB.com is accepting MODs again it will be submitted and get the BETA removed. Do not forget if you guys find error running it to let me know so all sites can get bugs fixed.
Enjoy your garage ... was written for a MR2 site so good to see it here!!
'lo Esmond s:) :) s:)
When I fix bugs I'll post up on the phpBBGarage forum and let you know with a diff, which should make things easy for you s;) ;) s;)
In fact, I've got one I should post up tonight.
Hi Esmond,
many thanks for creating this little gem, just hope the wife never looks at it though s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Quote from: "kanujunkie"Hi Esmond,
many thanks for creating this little gem, just hope the wife never looks at it though s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Send me £100 a month Stu, or she gets a pm with a link s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
s:lol: :lol: s:lol: s:lol: :lol: s:lol: s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
£50 a month and I ban nelix's PM privileges s;) ;) s;)
Quote from: "aaronjb"£50 a month and I ban nelix's PM privileges s;) ;) s;)
£100 a month not to Aaron, and Stu's price goes to £250 s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Oops, back on topic guys s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Aaron, is it possible to edit the cost of the mods? I used a £ sign at first, and these show up as zero cost.
Makes me look like a tight Scottish git s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Enter Ekona stage left, revenge for a certain picture in mind. s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
You should be able to edit your own modifications - from your garage page, do you have a pencil icon to the right hand side of the modifications column?
That'll take you to the edit page.
If not then I can edit them (as can moderators)
Thanks, found it now, doh! s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
The garage looks really good.. top job guys.
I've had 16 views, and not one person has rated it yet.. s:cry: :cry: s:cry: s:D :D s:D
Quote from: "aaronjb"'lo Esmond s:) :) s:)
When I fix bugs I'll post up on the phpBBGarage forum and let you know with a diff, which should make things easy for you s;) ;) s;)
In fact, I've got one I should post up tonight.
Cool... although placing in the bugtracker would be even better!! m http://forums.phpbbgarage.com/bugs/index.php (http://forums.phpbbgarage.com/bugs/index.php) m is the URL ... sorry for thread hijack!!
OMG!!
Vehicle 2005 Toyota MR Spyder
Engine Type 4 Cylinder Naturally Aspirated
Colour Black
Updated Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:36 pm
Mileage 0
Purchased Price 0
Total Mods 23
Total Spent 3810
Total Views 23
Rating 7.71 / 10
I still haven't added the 500 quid the ICE just cost me and there are a couple of things I can't remember the cost of... mounts up eh!.. Like a few of you, I better not let my wife see this s:D :D s:D
OH!.. and whoever rated my car.... 7 out of 10???? c'mon.. it's a least a 9.9 s8) 8) s8)
Quote from: "VVT-i"OMG!!
Vehicle 2005 Toyota MR Spyder
Engine Type 4 Cylinder Naturally Aspirated
Colour Black
Updated Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:36 pm
Mileage 0
Purchased Price 0
Total Mods 23
Total Spent 3810
s8) 8) s8)
But you got a bargain 0 miler! s:wink: :wink: s:wink: s:) :) s:)
It had 18 miles when I took delivery.. now has just over 10k. s:) :) s:)
Quote from: "VVT-i"It had 18 miles when I took delivery.. now has just over 10k. s:) :) s:)
s:roll: :roll: s:roll: 3 1/2yrs and 72,000 fun filled miles s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
I thnk Jigwar is our resident fault finder on the garage s:D :D s:D
Quote from: "Liz"I thnk Jigwar is our resident fault finder on the garage s:D :D s:D
...runs off to own garage to correct mistakes s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Dont worry about the wife seeing the mods.
Gemma had no problem with my new Tein EDFC front rear "stereo balancer" unit s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
s:lol: :lol: s:lol: s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
well i found that driftworks do Tein SS's for £587inc vat but not for our model, so i've e-mailed them in the hope that they can do them for ours at the same price