Yep, it's pretty much perfect speed wise on my forums.

I just check your forum, Chinese and all others for that matter are working fine.

Thanks.

shouldnt you have a english flag on there? there is no way to goto english if ur in another language. if someone clicks the language by accident they wouldnt know how to go back to english.

It is bad for SEO so it is best removed, I am sure they could easily click your logo or something to get back :)

It is probably a grey area, it's original content and was once created by members so is not technically automated or junk content.

There have been similar scripts before I did this for vB, the other scripts has issues but did work. A few friends and I have been using these other scripts that are out for years and never had anything bad happen.

Although this idea may be new to you and others, it's been around a long time, other coders tried using the actual Google Translate website, this was slow and buggy but did work. Goggles new Translate API service is why I thought I'd try my luck.

If you click any url is goes back to your base language anyway. Most people only view one page, so it really doesn't matter.

Dave I have a question, is this purely for the SE's or do you think foreign signed in members will find it useful too? I am considering allowing only guests to view the flags, what do you think? :)

I only show the flags to guests, this is machine translation, so, the bots will love it and send you visits, but, those visits will read and understand what they can (it's pretty good but not perfect) but are unlikely to stick around for long, unless they can speak you base language. As I have said before, if you want to add different language forums to your site do just that, make the forums, get a foreign moderator and install some language packs. This is machine translation for traffic and ad revenue pretty much. I make tons extra $$ with it and it didn't take any extra work to write the 1,000's of pages of content, that was it's goal when I designed it. Nothing else. ;P

I hope this helps.

i cant get this to work. ive installed it, done the DB stuff. when i click a flag nothing happens, its just loading and does nothing. no data is being written to the mysql DB.

Do you have CURL enabled on your site?

Could also ask you host to turn on php errors in the browser so you get an error message.

cURL support enabled
cURL Information libcurl/7.19.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5