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booba · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 07:44 AM

Hi,

I am looking at purchasing DTO Garage Plus.. Is there an easy way to import cars from vbgarage 3.5? Also can we import the timeslip data with this garage?

Regards,
Jeremy

Mark · #2 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 08:29 AM

Jeremy,
Thanks for your post. Garage Plus does not currently have an importer from vBgarage. That said I've used vBgarage before and can likely provide the ability to migrate the bulk of data into Garage Plus. We would need to work with you to determine how data would be mapped from one product to the other.

As for timeslip information there is currently no facility to capture or store that information in Garage Plus. One optioin is using our ShowCase product as it can be easily configured to store both garage-like information and timeslip data. It can also be used to capture and share other types of data (ie - a Wheel Finder) all from the same instance on your server.

If you would like to explore migrating of your vBgarage data or learn more about ShowCase let me know and we can discuss further.

Thanks again for contacting us!

Best regards,

Mark

Focus · #3 (**permalink**) 02-27-2010, 07:53 AM

I am looking at converting from vbgarage as well. It does not look as if it is too difficult. Here is vbgarage installcode:

Code:

            <installcode><![CDATA[$db->query("
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbgarage_images (
  `vbgarageid` smallint(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `data` longblob NOT NULL,
  `type` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`vbgarageid`)
 ) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1"
);
    
$db->query("
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbgarage_users (
  `userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `year` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `make` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `model` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `text` mediumtext NOT NULL,
  `lastactivity` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`userid`)
 ) TYPE=MyISAM"
);
    
$db->query("
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbgarage_comments (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `vbgarageid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `username` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `pagetext` mediumtext NOT NULL,
  `dateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
 ) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1"
);]]></installcode>

Mark · #4 (**permalink**) 02-27-2010, 11:19 AM

Currently we don't offer any type of automated migration of data into Garage/Garage Plus. That said looking at the database structure above I can provide some insight into some potential issues that would have to resolved before the data could be imported.

1) Images are stored in the database where DTO Garage stores them in the file system. We would need first need to export the images to file, create thumbnails, and name them in a way that they could be associated with a DTO Garage entry. I'm also assuming from the structure that there is only one garage per user allowed in the vB garage product.

2) When importing images into a garage we would need to fill the images from the general information block in DTO Garage "downward" depending on how many images are allowed per vbGarage entry. There wouldn't be a means to know if images were to be associated with particular sections of our garage entry.

3) For the garage_users table that should be pretty straightforward to migrate across given that the text column was mapped into our history field in the general information block.

4) Comments - we don't current have any support for commenting though we do have a table defined for them that I created as a placeholder for use sometime in the future. If our table was expanded a bit these entries could likely be migrated and, in the future, we would have some means of displaying them or adding new ones.

Right now I'm working very hard to get our products support vB4. Its not been an easy migration because of having to rework EVERY template in all of our products. Once we have our products released with vB4 support I'll be back to adding features to the products that will help drive sales and support our existing customers.

If you need any additional assistance with Garage or Garage Plus don't hesitate to ask and we'll do our best to help you.

Thanks!

Mark