Translate a Thread in a Google Pop-Up Window

[Digital Jedi]

Support and updates for this mod will now be given in the 3.7.x thread, as this should work no matter what your version of vB. If you have any questions, please ask in that thread.

DJ's Translate a Thread in a Google Pop-up Window




Screenshot
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/18.png


Supported Languages
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/6.gif العربية (Arabic)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/7.gif Български (Bulgarian)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/8.gif 中国 (Chinese - Simplified)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/9.gif 中國 (Chinese - Traditional)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/10.gif Hrvatski (Croatian)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/11.gif Česky (Czech)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/12.gif Dansk (Danish)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/13.gif Nederlands (Dutch)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/14.gif English (This is merely a direct link to the Google Translator)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/15.gif Suomi (Finnish)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/16.gif Fran?ais (French)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/17.gif Ελληνική (Greek)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/18.gif Deutsch (German)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/19.gif हिन्दी (Hindi)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/20.gif Italiano (Italian)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/21.gif 日本語 (Japanese)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/22.gif 한국어 (Korean)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/23.gif Norsk (Norwegian)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/24.gif Polski (Polish)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/25.gif Portugu?s (Portuguese)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/26.gif Rom?nă (Romanian)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/27.gif Русский Russian
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/28.gif Espa?ol (Spanish)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/29.gif Svenska (Swedish)


Live Demo (http://www.cogonline.net/showthread.php?t=39536)
Look for the "Translate" drop-down menu beside the "Display Modes" drop-down.

[Digital Jedi]

Additional "[Language] to..." Options (Step 2A)
If you would like more then the basic "English to..." functionality, add the block(s) of code of your choice underneath (or instead of) the code you added in Step 2. Then proceed to Step 3 in the first post.

*************UNDER DEVELOPMENT***********

[ChurchMedia]

First of all -- you're my official hero for the day. I was about to sign out for the day, but had to install this first. I really want to branch out to reach other languages but I haven't found an easy solution. This will work great!

A couple of things you should fix in your code.

1) You need to add </table></div> right before <!-- / Language Translator Menu -->.

2) For the links that need to be changed to your forum, some of them say www.YOURSITE.NET and some say www.cogonline.net.

3) The Greek flag is missing from the zip file.

Again, great mod!! Thanks! :)

[Digital Jedi]

Whoops. So much for proof reading. :D Thanks ChurchMedia. I'll correct that right away.

EDIT: Fixed both the lack of the closing tags, the demo URLs and added the missing Greek Flag to the zip. I'd forgotten Google added Greek.

[punk23]

GREAT MOD!! Can I make the pop up window wider please as it makes my site look u-g-l-y in a smaller window :)

[Digital Jedi]

GREAT MOD!! Can I make the pop up window wider please as it makes my site look u-g-l-y in a smaller window :)
Yes, you can adjust the window size by editing each instance of width=800,height=800. But bear in mind that your users are all using different browser resolutions, and anything too much larger then 800px will create a window larger then the screen for some users.

[punk23]

Thank you - done and looking much better :)

[MachMood]

very very very usefull
thanx

[dreads]

Its really good yet it takes a bit longer to load for some weird reason

but in general very nice mod

[Digital Jedi]

very very very usefull
thanx
No problem. Don't forget to click "Install". :D

Its really good yet it takes a bit longer to load for some weird reason

but in general very nice mod
Thanks much. Do you mean the Google window, or the page the menu is on? The menu shouldn't slow the page load at all, but Google's translation service can take a moment, and longer if their server is busy (which seems to be the case late at night, at least, locally.)

[Lombardo]

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?

[Digital Jedi]

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?
The English link is there as a courtesy mainly. The way Google's "Translate a Web Page" works is it has to know what language your translating to and from. So it is possible to get it to translate to English, but the starting language would always have to be the same, meaning ALWAYS Spanish to English or ALWAYS Dutch to English, etc. Likely not practical to most forums.

I may be able to come up with an modification to the modification (I just like saying that) that adds all of Google's [Insert Language] to English options. But it may take me a bit to make it practical and user friendly. I'll look into it.

[Itworx4me]

I have installed this mod. I also have vbseo installed and it doesn't play very friendly with the mod. I get red x's where images should be. Anyway of making this vbseo friendly?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[Digital Jedi]

I have installed this mod. I also have vbseo installed and it doesn't play very friendly with the mod. I get red x's where images should be. Anyway of making this vbseo friendly?

Thanks,
Itworx4me
Not without knowing more about vBSEO. My first impression though, presuming the link in your profile is the correct site, is that it's Google causing the problem and not a conflict with the two mods, per se. I took one of your threads and copy and pasted the URL into Google's "Translate a Web Page" directly, and it did the same thing. Apparently, each time it translates a page it thinks the images are in the same directory as your thread. So, for example, if there's a post icon in a thread in General Chat, Google thinks the icon is located at:

/general-chat/images/icons/icon10.gif

Rather than where it actually is, in:

/images/icons/icon10.gif

Same thing for an image in NHRA. It tacks /nhra just after the .com. I hate to leave it at that, but unless I know more about how vBSEO formats your threads, I'm afraid this is one of those "don't know" questions. For now anyway. I'll do my best to look into it.

[Digital Jedi]

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?
Lombardo, and to anyone else interested, I added an alternative version of the mod that should do what you asked. Please see Post 2 for more information and let me know this works for you.

[Lombardo]

I can't get it too work mate,first thing its hard to keep your cursor over it to click it because it just closes and when i eventually get to click it nothing happens.

[Digital Jedi]

Well, that might be the problem. Your not supposed to click it. :) It just opens when you move your mouse over it. vBulletin menus just open once you've already opened a window. For example, try opening a regular drop down, and you'll notice when move your mouse over any of the other ones, they open and close without clicking. If you click them, you close it again.

That's what's been happening here. Just mouse over the menu like you would any other kind of drop down menu, and the sub menu will automatically open. If you try to click it, your just going to turn the menu off.

[Lombardo]

Yeah when i put my mouse over it it closes tho.

[vbob]

Hi,
My main Language of my forum is Greek. I want to translate Greek to English...etc...!!! When I press the menu to translate my thread to English, the pop up does not translate anything, but it just shows me the Google translation page...!!! What should I change to the code so it can be functional from Greek to any other language???
Edit: Hmm another issue: ...I have the "Welcome" mod for guests to show them a message and invite them to register to the site...!!! it seems that if the mod translates something from the thread it just translate the welcome message - because google isn't a registered user and sees that message!!!! Is there a way to make the mod tranlate the thread correctly? :-)
(Still...when I press the english flag, it just shows me the Google translation page only and doesn't do any translation)

Thank you...!!! :-)

[Digital Jedi]

Yeah when i put my mouse over it it closes tho.

It shouldn't. Can I see a link to where you have it installed?

Hi,
My main Language of my forum is Greek. I want to translate Greek to English...etc...!!! When I press the menu to translate my thread to English, the pop up does not translate anything, but it just shows me the Google translation page...!!! What should I change to the code so it can be functional from Greek to any other language???
See post two of this thread. That's the alternative if you want more [LANGUAGE] to English options.

If you don't want all those options, you could also just remove the block of code marked <!--English--> in the first version and replace it with the line of code marked <!--English To Greek--> in Post 2. EDIT: (Yes, I just realized I have that entire menu marked wrong. They shoud all be marked [LANGUAGE] to English, not English to [LANGUAGE])

Edit: Hmm another issue: ...I have the "Welcome" mod for guests to show them a message and invite them to register to the site...!!! it seems that if the mod translates something from the thread it just translate the welcome message - because google isn't a registered user and sees that message!!!! Is there a way to make the mod tranlate the thread correctly? :-)

Unfortunately, no. Google can only translate what it can see. Or conversely, it will translate everything it sees. Basically this mod utilized 3rd party functionality, and as such, is limited by what the 3rd party offers. But I have presented the issue to Google. It remains to be seen when (or if) they'll get back to me. :)

(Still...when I press the english flag, it just shows me the Google translation page only and doesn't do any translation)
See above. ;)

Thank you...!!! :-)
No problem.

[Digital Jedi]

Okay, minor wording problem on the Post 2 <!--comments--> fixed. That would not have affected performance at all. But it sure would have made support a bit more confusing then it already is. :rolleyes:

[Lombardo]

my forum http://www.ucsampdoria.co.uk

[Digital Jedi]

my forum http://www.ucsampdoria.co.uk
Okay, I think I see the problem. It actually is opening. But it's opening way down towards the bottom of the next post. Remember in the instructions where I say that you may need to adjust this line margin-top:-308px to maintain the illusion that the menu is changing? That's what's happening here. The old menu is closing, but the new menu is opening in the wrong part of the screen.

I see you adjusted that line a little bit, setting -308 to -300. But actually, your going to need a larger negative number. Right now it looks like this:


<!-- English to [LANGUAGE] Submenu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="english_menu" style="display:none;margin-left:0px;margin-top:-300px;">


Change the -300 to something like -600 and play around with that. Because everyone's styles are different, everyone will likely have to adjust that line to get it to line up just perfectly. The larger the negative number the higher it will go. The closer to 0 you get the lower it will go.

By the way, what browser are you using?

[Digital Jedi]

Ugh, apparently this is a browser compatibility thing. I just checked FireFox and it opens the menu in a completely different location. I can probably fix this. But I'll need some time.

[Lombardo]

so no point changing it?

[apiasto]

nice work,my question is could v add any other languages to the menu? thnx

[baghdad4ever]

thanks

[vbob]

I checked out again. Because guests can read (they have permissions) my forum that's not a problem for google(Google can see/read all the text needed)!!! Google just have "extra text" (the welcome message) to translate.... :-) :-) so everything is ok for guests and google !!!The only problem is that I have to change the From Language in First case of code..to Greek (the default is english)!!! The hover menu in second case, just don't work for me (I am using firefox). (and in general I think that many users will be confused too) I prefer to use the first case of code (the simplicity of the menu I mean) and not the alternative one.

I tested the second case (I added that "second case" part of code after the "Greek" in the first case of code - Not the alternative)

<!--Greek to English-->
<tr><td align="right" class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Fenster1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MYSITE.NET%2Fshowthre ad.php%3Ft%3D$thread[threadid]&langpair=el%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<span title="Greek">Greek</span> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/gr.gif" alt="Greek" width="15" height="10" border="0" /></a></td></tr>

And it works fine...!!!
The question is that I want to translate from Greek to any language
What should i do for the rest languages?

[Digital Jedi]

The alternative code, and this my fault really, as I didn't check FireFox before I went to bed last night, wont necessarily work for cross browsers. Both browser require different lines of code to align them similarly. And everything I've looked at so far just seems inelegant from what I had intended. This is really my fault also for trying to get fancy with code I'm not all that familiar with.

I think I have a much simpler, more elegant solution for folks, without trying to get all fancy and cute. It should actually provide a solution for everyone. Just give me a few to edit Post 2. If it gets to late tonight (6 AM here), I'll try to have a replacement up by Friday night, barring flood or famine (or just forgetting to pay my Internet bill =/ ).

[baghdad4ever]

i love this mod but

sorry it is not work on IE

but it work on firefox

see this

http://www.baghdad4ever.net/vb/showthread.php?p=791362#post791362

[vbob]

The alternative code, and this my fault really, as I didn't check FireFox before I went to bed last night, wont necessarily work for cross browsers. Both browser require different lines of code to align them similarly. And everything I've looked at so far just seems inelegant from what I had intended. This is really my fault also for trying to get fancy with code I'm not all that familiar with.

I think I have a much simpler, more elegant solution for folks, without trying to get all fancy and cute. It should actually provide a solution for everyone. Just give me a few to edit Post 2. If it gets to late tonight (6 AM here), I'll try to have a replacement up by Friday night, barring flood or famine (or just forgetting to pay my Internet bill =/ ).

:-)

I believe that this mod is wonderful!!! :-)
(and thank you for your mod) :-)
To solve any problems, You should begin with the rule "keep it simple". :-)
If I were you, i would give 3 kind of different "Code situations" so anyone can fit the code in his needs. :-)

1) Make a script that can translate FROM: Any* Language TO: English (that could be very useful as English language is the Language that most of people could understand). So if someone have a i.e. Greek language board, can use the Greek to English option to be sure that at least the translation to the basics will be done for sure. :-)
*= by "Any language" I mean the languages that you already have in the script. :-)
2) Give people an example of "how to" transform existing code to make the script translate from "Any" to "Any" language he like (all the combinations) :-)
3) Make sure the code is simple (so it is surelly supported from all browsers)
4) Then make any experiments and supply people with the script that can do tricks like the one you've done as alternative.

So people can really have a code fitted to their needs, and working for sure. As for the alternative, they could experiment them selfs with various of browsers and give you feedback too. :-)

I hope I helped somehow. :-)
(keep up the good work...!!! I love that mod, thank you. Looking forward for the new "working in all browsers and flexible" (Greek to English...Greek to Any, Any to Any) version.....):-)

(ohh...it would be useful to have icons with words too in the menu like the way I show you below.
for example
[Icon_Country_Flag] Greek to [Icon_Country_Flag] English
[Icon_Country_Flag] Greek to [Icon_Country_Flag] German
.
.
.
etc......

(the ideal should be to recognize the language automatically and the user could just select the language he like to translate "to", but its is difficult and could have problems) :-)

[vbob]

i love this mod but

sorry it is not work on IE

but it work on firefox

see this

http://www.baghdad4ever.net/vb/showthread.php?p=791362#post791362

For me (my site) it Works fine Both in Firefox and I.E. and Opera too...!!! :-)
I checked your site and yes it have problem with I.E.

Check Out my forum and try to translate from Greek to English if you like to see if you have problem with I.E., Opera, and Firefox there...!!! :-)

http://madseeds.com/forum

Here is the Code I used for my forum (Step.2)

<!-- Language Translator Menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="languagemenu_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr><td class="thead">Translate</td></tr>



<!--Greek to English-->
<tr><td align="right" class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Fenster1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.madseeds.com/forum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D$thread[threadid]&langpair=el%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/gr.gif" alt="Greek" width="15" height="10" border="0" /><span title="Greek">Greek to English Translation</span> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/us.gif" alt="English" width="15" height="10" border="0" /></a></td></tr>


</table></div>

<!-- / Language Translator Menu -->


(I also Changed the "Language" title to "Translation" title..!!!)
Later when i find some time I will fix it for the other languages too if I can..!!! :-)
I prefer to have simple menus so any unexperienced user can use it...(I mean that I want the menu to work to all browsers for sure)!!! :-)

[yeku]

Hello, my forum is in Spanish.

What I have to do modifications because you do not work

I need you to help me please.

thanks

[Digital Jedi]

Okay, guys. This took me a bit longer to put together then I thought it would. I'm sure it's not completely perfect, but see post 2 of this thread again. You can now add a link to all the available language options that Google offers.

Vbob, thanks for letting me know about the translation working in Greek. That's really the only thing about this mod that I can't test myself, so thanks much for the feedback. And thanks also for the suggestions. I was thinking along the same lines as well.

Baghad4ever, I'm sorry. But it appears to be an issue with Google and IE. My uneducated guess would be that is has something to do with the fact that their is a "vb" in your thread URLs. One other user had the same problem with way his URLs were formatted. Still, I can't imagine why FireFox would translate just fine and IE wouldn't. But at the moment, I don't know why.

Apiasto, see the new version I added to post 2 just now.

Yeku, what problems are you having exactly? If your trying find a Spanish to English translator, I only just added that now in post 2.

[yeku]

In order to accept POST request originating from this domain, the admin must add this domain to the whitelist.This is the answer, in admincp, I have "google.com/language_tools" and "translate.google.com/translate?"

Also when I try to make a translation, finalize session:erm:

What do I do wrong??

pd: Alternative 2, post n?2

[Lombardo]

In order to accept POST request originating from this domain, the admin must add this domain to the whitelist.

I get that too when i try to translate Italian to english all the rest work fine,just this.

[baghdad4ever]

thanks my dear

but my forum is arabic lang

so

only translate to english would be work

bec the google option only from arabic to english

so how can i made another translations to be work??

[vbob]

Vbob, thanks for letting me know about the translation working in Greek. That's really the only thing about this mod that I can't test myself, so thanks much for the feedback. And thanks also for the suggestions. I was thinking along the same lines as well.


You are welcome Digital Jedi. I am glad I helped. Thanks for your mod..!!! :-)
It is working fine for me (Greek to English and English to Greek Translation, tested in Firefox, I.E., Opera) :-)

[Digital Jedi]

Lombardo, yeku, in order for Google to translate a page, it needs to be able to see your page. So you'd need Guest browsing enabled, as you wont be able to log in from a translated page. I'm sorry, that's just how Google's service works.

baghdad4ever, what additional languages are you looking for? Have you tried the other language options yet? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.

Vbob, that's good to know. Feel free to ping this thread if you run into any other problems.

[Lombardo]

Works now mate,thanks a lot for your efforts mate.Its much appreciated.

[TheWhite]

Can someone give me the automatic Italian to English string?

Best regards

[Digital Jedi]

I made sure to make each block easy to find in the attached zip file in Post 2. Italian to English is in a block by itself.

[baghdad4ever]

baghdad4ever, what additional languages are you looking for? Have you tried the other language options yet? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.
.


hi

my forum language is arabic, so when german guest come and want to translate the page, he will press on german flag but the google cannot translate the page

only arabic to english worked

how can i fix that??

[Digital Jedi]

hi

my forum language is arabic, so when german guest come and want to translate the page, he will press on german flag but the google cannot translate the page

only arabic to english worked

how can i fix that??
I see what you mean now. The way the code works is it translates a predetermined language to a predetermined language. Google can't guess what language your page is in, so the links are premade to translate one specific language to one specific language. So the only thing the German flag (on the Post 1 mod) is going to do is translate "English to German", not "Any Language to German".

For the moment, Google only translates Arabic to English. But if they add any more languages, I'll be sure to add it in.

[TheWhite]

ok thanks but now how do i add the domain to the whitelist?

how comw that with the some of the other languages you don't need the guest feature on? :(

[Digital Jedi]

ok thanks but now how do i add the domain to the whitelist?

how comw that with the some of the other languages you don't need the guest feature on? :(
If it's not viewable by Guests, then Google can't read it either. There shouldn't be any exceptions to that, unless you've stumbled across a bug in your permissions.

[R-D]

Great hack, thanks Digital Jedi! :)

[Habsy]

Hi, I am having a problem adding this mod. Step 2A asks to look for

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
vB_AJAX_ThreadRate_Init('showthread_threadrate_for m');
var threadid = $threadinfo[threadid];
//-->
</script>
</if>

Yet my style does not contain that function.

Is there another area of the style I can place this mod? I would love to get it working.

Thanks in advance.

[Digital Jedi]

Great hack, thanks Digital Jedi! :)

Your welcome. :cool: And thank you.

Hi, I am having a problem adding this mod. Step 2A asks to look for

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
vB_AJAX_ThreadRate_Init('showthread_threadrate_for m');
var threadid = $threadinfo[threadid];
//-->
</script>
</if>

Yet my style does not contain that function.

Is there another area of the style I can place this mod? I would love to get it working.

Thanks in advance.

Can you post your template code? Maybe it's just arranged differently.

[skrazydogz]

your English traslation isnt correct it opens only google translator...and not an german - english translation for example.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

To bad this dose not work if you block proxies on your site

Unless you do a little work and allow the site that it is translating from

But thats not too hard i guess

But anyways ya just figured i would say something about the proxies problem

[Digital Jedi]

your English traslation isnt correct it opens only google translator...and not an german - english translation for example.

It's not wrong, that's just what it does. I mention that in the description.

Supported Languages
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/ae.gif Arabic
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/cn.gif Chinese (simplified)
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/tw.gif Chinese (traditional)
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/us.gif English (This is merely a direct link to the Google Translator)
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/fr.gif Fran?ais (French)
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/gr.gif Greek
http://www.cogonline.net/centura/buttons/de.gif Deutsch (German)


As I explained before, Google doesn't know what language your pages are in. So all translations presume your page is in English and translate accordingly.

BUT, if you want more language options then just English to [LANGUAGE], then see Post 2 of this thread. (Again, I did mention this in the description.)

Step 2. (For those that want more language options, there is an alternative to Step 2 here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1426397#post1426397)).

[Digital Jedi]

To bad this dose not work if you block proxies on your site

Unless you do a little work and allow the site that it is translating from

But thats not too hard i guess

But anyways ya just figured i would say something about the proxies problem
Shouldn't be too hard, I wouldn't think. The downside of having to use a third-party website, I suppose. The plus side is you don't have to worry about server load or anything like that. :)

[MiahBeSmokin420]

The plus side is you don't have to worry about server load or anything like that. :)

True True but if your server is really good then it can handle loads the most cant. like mine lol

[Habsy]

I got it working. I added the double navbar mod and replaced one of the default functions in it with this code. Works great! Thanks!

[Digital Jedi]

I'm glad it's working for you. :)

[aamirkhj]

Any possibility of adding "urdu" language translater, I see so far google did not added urdu language tool so far on the above link, anyway to work around that to translate urdu language to english:)

[Digital Jedi]

I'm afraid I can only add what Google provides, since their the one's doing the translation. Sorry. But if they do add more languages, and I'm made aware of it, I'll be sure to add them in.

[wenchdownunder]

Ok, I tested this on a test site and it worked brilliantly....just what I need. However when I make the template edits in my forums, I am able to do step 1, no issues, but the moment I do step 2 and save...it draws a blank page in the cp and doesn't save it. Obviously I have a conflict with something else that I have added :( Any clues on what perhaps it could be?

[Digital Jedi]

Ok, I tested this on a test site and it worked brilliantly....just what I need. However when I make the template edits in my forums, I am able to do step 1, no issues, but the moment I do step 2 and save...it draws a blank page in the cp and doesn't save it. Obviously I have a conflict with something else that I have added :( Any clues on what perhaps it could be?
I can't imagine what that would be, but you'd be right. It shouldn't have anything to do with the edits. Sorry I can't be of more help. Maybe disable your hacks you have installed and see if template edits still have the same behaviour.

[Scalemotorcars]

I like this translation much better then the Bablefish version I posted last year. But like others I'm having the same IE problem. Works fine with Firefox but a blank page with IE. I can see it downloading files but once its finished its just blank. Any ideals???

[Digital Jedi]

I'm not sure whats going on. When are you getting the blank page exactly?

[Scalemotorcars]

Can someone else try this and see if its working with another computer.
http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22722#post22722

All I get is a blank, black page with the translation. Ive reset all my permissions to default and Ive checked the white list. All that seems fine. Also I tried it on the demo with IE and its working fine so this must me a conflict of some sort with google and my site.

Anyone care to take a crack at it???:D

[Digital Jedi]

Can someone else try this and see if its working with another computer.
http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22722#post22722

All I get is a blank, black page with the translation. Ive reset all my permissions to default and Ive checked the white list. All that seems fine. Also I tried it on the demo with IE and its working fine so this must me a conflict of some sort with google and my site.

Anyone care to take a crack at it???:D
I think I see a couple of problems. For one, the link you sent was in Threaded Mode, which I presume is what you have set as the default. Initially, all I saw was the Thread tree and no posts.

The other thing I noticed is that once I'd clicked a few pages the forums where closed off to me. I'm guessing this will disrupt what Google can read as well.

There may be other reasons, but those are the ones that jump out at me.

[Scalemotorcars]

Well nuts. I didn't see that. Hold up Ill try and tweak that and see what happens.

[Scalemotorcars]

I changed the display setting and turned off this hack.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131985&highlight=Limited+Guest

But its still doing the same thing. :confused:

[Scalemotorcars]

Also added .translate.google.com to the VB whitelist but I dont think thats it either.

[Digital Jedi]

Also added .translate.google.com to the VB whitelist but I dont think thats it either.
I tried translating your site directly from Google's Language Tools (http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en) page, and all your pages are having the same problem. Not even the index or the CMPS page will reproduce any content. This one has got me. I can't imagine why it would come out blank, unless maybe Google is still being blocked somehow.

[Scalemotorcars]

What about the Privacy policy. I just noticed that at the bottom of the translation page theres a (privacy policy) Icon thats showing blocked cookies. Anyone know how to fix that?

[Scalemotorcars]

Found something with that privacy that may narrow it down.

Ive got a flash header and used objectswap.js to get around having to activate it. Well I removed that in the (headinclude) and now the translator shows my header but nothing else. 2 other items that are showing blocked are the (clientscript/vbulletin_global.js) and (clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js) but these appear to be be VB code and I don't want to remove those without further feedback. Anyone???

[Scalemotorcars]

Its the flash header. I reverted the header template back to the default and Wah-la it worked perfectly. Google for some reason is having a problem with it. Got any ideal???

[Digital Jedi]

This is a jack-leg fix, and I'm not sure it will work, but do you happen to have an alternate skin that doesn't use the flash headers? One of the things I had to do with the old Bablefish hack, was change the URLs in the code to something else. Like for awhile there, I had them link to the archive version of the thread, or to a different style ID. Like I said, it's a jack-leg fix, but the first thing that popped into my head.

[Scalemotorcars]

No the Flash header is a part of the site. Now that I know what the problem is I'll dig around on Google and see if theres a fix. As soon as I get it working Ill post the results here so you can add to your instructions. Thanks for everything... Daniel

One more thing. I tried putting the code into the navbar so I could translate all my portal pages but I couldn't get the <tr><td>~</td></tr>. part of the code to work anywhere. The button was easy to place anywhere on the navbar. Any Ideal where to but all the Country code?

[Scalemotorcars]

Problem solved. There were 2 issues with this hack not working with the Google Translator.

1st: For some reason Google didn't like my "objectSwap.js" This is the code to get around the pesky active X on IE.

2nd: There was a snag with my Flash content. I was using a Macromedia Shockwave Flash 6 but it kept hanging at the content. I changed it to Flash 8 and still it got stuck. SO.... I stuck the flash on its own page and used an IFrame in the header.

I know, I know its an Iframe but it works.

Now to move it into the Navbar so all pages can be translated. This would be handy for everyone with the VBadvanced CMPS portal system like myself. Make all global pages translatable. Also need to look into a fix for the ended session when translated. Any ideals.

[Scalemotorcars]

Got this into the navbar. Not really hard at all but who knows how to change the language code from "showthread.php" to translate the entire page from the navbar?

Heres the basic code for one language.
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinezl=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.NET%2Fshow thread.php%3Ft%3D$thread[threadid]&langpair=en%7Car&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools','','directories=no,locatio n=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,statu s=no,menubar=no,width=800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/ae.gif" alt="Arabic" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Arabic">Arabic</span></a></td></tr>

[Digital Jedi]

Problem solved. There were 2 issues with this hack not working with the Google Translator.

1st: For some reason Google didn't like my "objectSwap.js" This is the code to get around the pesky active X on IE.

2nd: There was a snag with my Flash content. I was using a Macromedia Shockwave Flash 6 but it kept hanging at the content. I changed it to Flash 8 and still it got stuck. SO.... I stuck the flash on its own page and used an IFrame in the header.

I know, I know its an Iframe but it works.
That's great. I'm glad you posted it here in case anyone encouters the same problem. Hey, I've always thought Iframes were awesome. ;)

Now to move it into the Navbar so all pages can be translated. This would be handy for everyone with the VBadvanced CMPS portal system like myself. Make all global pages translatable. Also need to look into a fix for the ended session when translated. Any ideals.
Got this into the navbar. Not really hard at all but who knows how to change the language code from "showthread.php" to translate the entire page from the navbar?
Give me just a couple of days, and I'll post the vBadvanced version of this. In order to get the benefit from it in the Navbar, you would need completely different code in the URL area. It's not hard, just different based on your needs.

[Scalemotorcars]

That would be awesome. I'm looking forward to it. :up:

[Scalemotorcars]

Any luck yet? I haven't had the time myself but Ill give it a wack sometime this week if you don't have the time either. :)

[Scalemotorcars]

I'm not having any luck with this.

To recap. I'm trying to get this to work from any .com page. Especially with the vbadvanced CMPS pages and the forum.

Its easy enough to add the Language button to the navbar but I cant get the rest of the code to work from that location. Any ideals???

[Digital Jedi]

There's a slight bug with the one I'm working with. It worked earlier, but I noticed that it didn't like some modifications to my portal page. I'm trying to work that out to see if it's the new HTML I added, or on Google's end.

[paulvev]

my forum has a tiny bit of flash in the header...this modification gives me a white page on the google popup saying "Google error - Server Error - Please try again in 30 seconds" but its not working at all ?

Any suggestions?

[Digital Jedi]

It probably means just that. An internal server error. In fact, I believe Google was having some problems earlier today. Try again later on and it should work fine.

[paulvev]

Think so? Im not sure...its been 24 hours now and the server error is still showing each time i try to translate.

Going in via google, its translation of web page services (directly) seems to be working ok? Anybody got any ideas...i'd love this on my forum...i have people from 28 different countries!

Is there a way that the popup can show just the thread or post, rather than the header/navbar?
Im sure the problem lies in my flash header or complex navbar.

[Digital Jedi]

Hrm, that sounds odd. Have you tried the workaround ScaleMotoreCars tried? He was having trouble with his flash banner as well.

By the way, I think I've almost got the bugs on that vBa module worked out. But I can't be sure it will work for every forum until you try it out. So consider it a Beta. :D

[paulvev]

I also have the Limited Guest hack installed. I turned it off
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...=Limited+Guest

still didnt work. My forum is set up for guests to be able to view posts.
I do have a tiny bit of flash in my header..

you can see whats happening here :
http://www.forumvme.com/showthread.php?t=699
The language menu opens up fine, but the google translation page struggles and gives a "google internal server error"...although i know its not google, cos all the examples including your demo are actually working right now.

I'm using Firefox... but it doesnt work in IE too.
Im pretty stuck now to be honest. Any ideas?

[Magnusson2u]

That's some great shit! I can't use it, but I love it! :)

[Digital Jedi]

I also have the Limited Guest hack installed. I turned it off
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...=Limited+Guest

still didnt work. My forum is set up for guests to be able to view posts.
I do have a tiny bit of flash in my header..

you can see whats happening here :
http://www.forumvme.com/showthread.php?t=699
The language menu opens up fine, but the google translation page struggles and gives a "google internal server error"...although i know its not google, cos all the examples including your demo are actually working right now.

I'm using Firefox... but it doesnt work in IE too.
Im pretty stuck now to be honest. Any ideas?
I'm thinking it is Google. It's just having a problem with your site in particular. You wouldn't get a server error message if it was on your end. I suggest disabling your hacks one by one, and trying each time to see which one might be causing the problem. I'd start with your advertisements first, and see if it's the flash causing the problem. Google is having a problem processing something and it's causing an error on their end.

That's some great shit! I can't use it, but I love it! :)

Why, thank you. :D

[Scalemotorcars]

Google doesn't like the flash get around JS script. I took a quick look at your site and noticed your flash gets around the active-X. So however your doing that I bet thats your problem.

[Digital Jedi]

Sorry this took so long. Just been busy.

This will create a vBadvanced module on your home page. Let's test this first and make sure it works for everyone, before we tackle a module for all your pages and the additional language options.

Step 1
(For vBadvanced 3.0.0) Go to Admin CP >>> vBa CMPS >>> Add Module>>>Template Module

Step 2

Name the module what you will. I named mine Translate this Page. The important options to set are as follows. You can set the others to whatever you wish.Template to Include: translate_page

Template Content:

<center>
<table width="99%" class="tcat">
<tr>
<td id="languagemenu" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_languagemenu"><strong>Translate this Page</strong></a>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("languagemenu"); </script></if>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
<br />

<!-- Language Translator Menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="languagemenu_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr><td class="thead">Translate this Page</td></tr>

<!-- Arabic -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinezl=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Car&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar/ae.gif" alt="Arabic" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Arabic">Arabic</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Chinese (Simplified) -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Czh-CN&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/cn.gif" alt="Chinese (Simplified)" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Chinese (Simplified)">Chinese (s)</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Chinese (Traditional) -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Czh-TW&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/tw.gif" alt="Chinese (Traditional)" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Chinese (Traditional)">Chinese (t)</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- English -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://www.google.com/language_tools','','directories=no,location=no,res izable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,men ubar=no,width=700,height=500')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/us.gif" alt="English" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="English">English</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- French -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/fr.gif" alt="French" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="French">Fran?ais</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- German -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/de.gif" alt="German" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="German">Deutsch</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Greek -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cel&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/gr.gif" alt="Greek" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Greek">Greek</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Italian -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/it.gif" alt="Italian" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Italian">Italiano</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Japanese -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cja&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/jp.gif" alt="Japanese" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Japanese">Japanese</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Korean -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cko&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/kr.gif" alt="Korean" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Korean">Korean</span></a></td></tr>
<!-- Portuguese -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cpt&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/pt.gif" alt="Portuguese" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Portuguese">Portuguese</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Russian -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Cru&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/ru.gif" alt="Russian" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Russian">Russian</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Spanish -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onClick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&langpair=en%7Ces&hl=en&ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/es.gif" alt="Spanish" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Spanish">Espa?ol</span></a></td></tr>

<!-- Dutch -->
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="#" onclick="Martinez1=window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOURDOMAIN.COM&amp;langpa ir=en%7Cnl&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8','','directories=no,location=no,resizable=yes,sc rollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,width =800,height=800')">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/nl.gif" alt="Dutch" width="15" height="10" border="0" /> <span title="Dutch">Nederlands</span></a></td></tr>

</table></div>
<!-- / Language Translator Menu -->

Use Module Wrapper Template: [I]NoStep 3
Replace each instance of YOURDOMAIN.COM with the location of your forum.

Step 4
After setting your other settings to preference, save the module and when prompted, add it to the page your using as your home page.

And that should do it. The rest can be set to your customizations. When you wish to edit the appearance and the code of the module, you will go to your Style Manager and edit the template named adv_portal_translate_page. Here's mine in action: www.cogonline.net (http://www.cogonline.net)

[Tom S]

Thank You so much for writing this code. It is going to help our research like you would not believe. I have just worked on this for around an hour (I am really new to this code stuff). But I did get it working correctly. Now if I could just figure out what I did wrong with the Mp3 player:(

Check out my Forum: http://www.bigfootreferenceguide.com/index.php

You guys are geniuses in my book. I was just noticing the update to add to the Template Module. This will not overwrite what I have just done, correct? This will be for the next Forum Skin that I build?

Tom S. :D

[Digital Jedi]

Thank You so much for writing this code. It is going to help our research like you would not believe. I have just worked on this for around an hour (I am really new to this code stuff). But I did get it working correctly. Now if I could just figure out what I did wrong with the Mp3 player:(

Check out my Forum: http://www.bigfootreferenceguide.com/index.php

You guys are geniuses in my book. I was just noticing the update to add to the Template Module. This will not overwrite what I have just done, correct? This will be for the next Forum Skin that I build?

Tom S. :D
The module? No, this will just add a template for the module to call upon when displaying it's content. All it will do is create a box with language options for your CMPS home page.

[Tom S]

The module? No, this will just add a template for the module to call upon when displaying it's content. All it will do is create a box with language options for your CMPS home page.

OK, Thank You very very much Digital Jedi

Tom S. :up:

[Digital Jedi]

I updated the vBa module. There was slight error in it's construction.

[paulvev]

Still no idea how i can get this to work ....

You mention it may be something to do with the little bit of flash in my header? How do i get round that? I confirm everything else is installed as directed , but still giving Server error at google....although i know its not google now. Hope you can help. I REALLY need this mod with so many international members now. Thanks. My site again is www.forumvme.com

[Digital Jedi]

Still no idea how i can get this to work ....

You mention it may be something to do with the little bit of flash in my header? How do i get round that? I confirm everything else is installed as directed , but still giving Server error at google....although i know its not google now. Hope you can help. I REALLY need this mod with so many international members now. Thanks. My site again is www.forumvme.com (http://www.forumvme.com)

Scale said he had a couple of issues with his flash header. He got around it by putting his Flash Content in an <iframe> (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp).

Problem solved. There were 2 issues with this hack not working with the Google Translator.

1st: For some reason Google didn't like my "objectSwap.js" This is the code to get around the pesky active X on IE.

2nd: There was a snag with my Flash content. I was using a Macromedia Shockwave Flash 6 but it kept hanging at the content. I changed it to Flash 8 and still it got stuck. SO.... I stuck the flash on its own page and used an IFrame in the header.

I know, I know its an Iframe but it works.

Now to move it into the Navbar so all pages can be translated. This would be handy for everyone with the VBadvanced CMPS portal system like myself. Make all global pages translatable. Also need to look into a fix for the ended session when translated. Any ideals.

[l0streflecti0n]

works great thanks

[Digital Jedi]

Your welcome. Don't forget to click "Install". :)

[jawatkin]

Brilliant.. Seriously. THANK YOU!

[Digital Jedi]

Your welcome. :)

[energetic]

If my base language is Chinese, how to change the code to suit my needs ?

[Digital Jedi]

I can post that code next, but please look for it in the 3.7 thread. It should still work, regardless of your vBulletin version.

[rooban12]

can we use it on vb 4.1.8?

thanks

[Manoel J?nior]

Me too 4.1.X

[Digital Jedi]

I made it pretty clear that I'm not giving support in this thread, guys. But no, 4.x template conditionals are completely different from anything older.