Localize (translate) forum name, forum titles & forum descriptions

[Analogpoint]

I created this for the bilingual forums I admin, and thought it might be useful to others.

If you have a multi-lingual board or you allow users to choose their interface language, this mod is for you. It allows you to localize or translate the name of your forums, and the titles & descriptions for each forum.

How it works

You input the title/name for a forum like this for example:

English Title | German Title | Spanish Title

and depending on the language the user has selected, the appropriate title will be displayed.

What it works with

This mod works with the following:

- Forum titles
- Forum descriptions
Plus the following settings: (in vB Options -> Site name / URL / Contact details)
- Forum name
- Home page name
- Contact us options
- Copyright text
- Company name

Installation

- Install the product XML file via the Product Manager.

Admin Options

You can:
- Turn the mod on/off
- Define the character to use as a separator between localized names
- Decide which vB options to localize
- Decide the order of the languages in the titles/desc/options.

History
v 1.0.0 Initial release

Screenshots

http://www.analogpoint.com/static/images/localize-forums-frontend-screenshot.png

The ACP Options:

http://www.analogpoint.com/static/images/localize-forums-acp-screenshot.png

[Analogpoint]

<font color="Red">* Analogpoint reserves, but doesn't know why.</font>

[Kaleem]

hmm looks promising

* LightInClouds clicked install

[Zagis]

Works fine so far...

Instaled

[WhaLberg]

This is really a nice idea.

Rated excellent.

[yahoooh]

great

if u can do this feature it will be more than perfect

spicific style for specific language

if i use 2 language and i want to make one of them use only 1 style , it will be great thing

thanks

[Gray Matter]

I don't have any use for this but it looks great. :)

[Reeve of shinra]

I dont have a multi-language forum but I give you props for the idea and for the implementation.

[BobbyBig]

Really great idea.
However there still is the Problem that Postings are not multi-language ;)
Solution for that ?

[bing11]

very good thank you

[Analogpoint]

great

if u can do this feature it will be more than perfect

spicific style for specific language

if i use 2 language and i want to make one of them use only 1 style , it will be great thing

thanks
Hmm, that's not really a feature that would go with this mod, what you want is something else to link a style with a language, so that whenever the user switches languages, the style is automatically switched as well, right?

Really great idea.
However there still is the Problem that Postings are not multi-language ;)
Solution for that ?
Nope, can't think of a good solution to that ATM. :D

To the rest of you: Thanks! :)

[kaptanblack]

Thanks, perceft idea.

[Mecho]

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!! how could i miss this mod ?? u can not believe how long i was looking for this and how many requests i sent to coders to publish this one !

i'm going to try and let u guys kno about the result

Thanks Analogpoint :up:


EDIT : Works like a Charm :) thanks again

[kruchczan]

Please version compatible with vbseo.

[Analogpoint]

Please version compatible with vbseo.

I'd love to, but I don't have vBSEO, and so I don't know what it does to vB internally. How exactly is it not compatible?

[kruchczan]

Unfortunatelly some conflict appears when I click on any forum. The error message is "page not found". For some reason vbseo changes a valid link to invalid one. If I turn vbseo off, everything works fine. I hope it can be easily corrected, for the modification is really great and very useful for multi-lingual forums :).

[Mecho]

i'm using VBSEO but i didnt see any problem or any NOT FOUND error !

[Analogpoint]

Unfortunatelly some conflict appears when I click on any forum. The error message is "page not found". For some reason vbseo changes a valid link to invalid one. If I turn vbseo off, everything works fine. I hope it can be easily corrected, for the modification is really great and very useful for multi-lingual forums :).

You might want to ask for support on vBSEO's forums. :)

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

woot!! thanks!! :D :D

[LICryptkeeper]

I. Love. You.

been asking for this for a long time!

[Nzo]

Wow really excellent !!
I don't understand how i could miss this awesome mod !!
thx so much !

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

any chance porting this for 3.7+?

VERY much needed :(

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

bump... doesn't work in 3.7 :(

[Mecho]

You might want to ask for support on vBSEO's forums. :)

yea , it can be a big issues if u have vbseo installed in ur forum :(

i asked their support and at the end i had to uninstall this mod :(((

[LICryptkeeper]

does not work with vbseo :( just installed this, and installed vbseo and it breaks the links into the forums.

[ovnnet]

Will you update to higher version? Can it translate up to sub-forums title,description, thread title...?

[Goomzee]

thankx for this Mod

[kruchczan]

Please update 3.7.x

[digadesign]

Does anyone know if it works with Vbulletin 3.7?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

nope :(

[vmacedonia]

Does anyone know if it works with Vbulletin 3.7?

Yup.

[ehsanix]

Yup.
The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.7.2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 3.6.99 and greater)

[vmacedonia]

Just open the product file with "wordpad" and delete this code:

<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="3.6.99" />
</dependencies>

Save it, and import it.

[Mecho]

would u make it compatible with VBSEO ??

[dnmedia]

Wow, just what I needed... thanks!!

[DannyITR]

Any chance for 3.8? or 4.0?

[lmgc]

please can you adapt this great hack winth vb4 ?

[ariellauthentic]

I've just run into a need to have this in a 4.2 forum. Any plans on updating it?