Originally Posted by NLP-er (Post 1837513)

One more thing - are you good enough or is it possible to include new translated links into sitemap generated by vbSEO sitemap generator?

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1837827)

Those getting blank page, this may help you.
I couldn't find an answer and started to check the programming when I've realized this script is using CURL, which I haven't enabled in php.ini.
I've added this into my php.ini:

[PHP_CURL]
extension=php_curl.dll

/of course this requires php_curl.dll to be available in your php ext directory/

And it all started to work.

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1837861)

Thanks Dave.

Anyways, I had a question.
I have a forum with close to 1 million posts, so I expect translating to take a lot of time, but after a quite a long time loading the page, I get this message when I try to translate the page to let say German:
Sorry, Sie m?ssen Javascript aktivieren, damit diese Website.
which basically means:
Sorry, you must have javascript enabled to view this site.

What do I do? I don't think my javascript is disabled.

Originally Posted by NLP-er (Post 1837899)

I installed mod at night and today get over 250 mails about DB errors:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE session
SET lastactivity = 1246032811, location = '/?hl=zh-CN', inforum = 0, inthread = 0, incalendar = 0, badlocation = 0
WHERE sessionhash = '566836506c3206d7db38c478aeac3808';

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Friday, June 26th 2009 @ 06:13:31 PM
Error Date : Friday, June 26th 2009 @ 06:18:23 PM
Script : http://www.forum.simple-nlp.pl/?hl=zh-CN
Referrer :
IP Address : zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Username : Nie zarejestrowany
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Is it coused by this plugin?

Originally Posted by chris1979 (Post 1837888)

Thanks for that, jarosciak. There may be some hope for us now. :)

If I can work out how to edit the php.ini file. :D

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid (Post 1837865)

What is the forum URL?

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1837935)

I've fixed the problem now.
It had to do with one of the proxy settings specific to my board only.

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid (Post 1837939)

Yep, looks to be working well on your site, congrats! ;)

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1837993)

Yup, seems to be working nicely.

I hope additional 22 million posts in different languages won't get my site banned in Google for sudden influx of pages..

I've wanted to ask how does this script translates pages. Does it work constantly on all pages (1 post to last) or it only works when someone clicks the translation flag?

BTW. I took off your link from the top menu, it was confusing to see one of the translation flags to point to another site. I am willing to send a small donation as a gesture of appreciation.

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1838030)

Dave, I don't mind linking to you. Don't take me wrong. I in-fact would see no problem pointing a link to you, even that other developers with much more complex scripts than yours do not require anything similar. Your script is a nice idea, but still it's fairly simple programming even for an average programmer.


So again. I am more than willing to send you a small donation and I am not alone among those who liked your script. All I want is to get rid of your annoying implementation of a completely misleading and badly positioned translation flag (in the middle of all language flags), which does not translate anything, but rather links to your side. It feels like a scam and it's not professional, so don't be upset.

So, I took it out and I've followed a very simple logic. On the forum where I have implemented this, I have hundreds of thousands of pages and close to a million page views a month, and it would simply be too generous to link to your site from all the pages. And even if I wanted to, I would do it, because your implementation of linking feels more like spam than a promotion. So why would I do so? For a simple script you wrote? You have to realize, that people pay hundreds of dollars a year for linking from sites with lot of traffic.
And I am not talking about my other forum, where I have over 20 million posts and where a month of linking to someone's site cost over $1000/month. Is your script worth that? Simple answer: NO.

So same as others, who offered you a same deal, I gave you an option of donation, or changing the script. So, please don't be greedy and rather recognize the needs of your fans and people who actually want to support you. If you think it's worth, you could even be selling this script, why not? I'd buy it, with an option to get rid of the link of course.

Regarding you saying how much you have supported me. Don't be ridiculous. I've asked two questions and you didn't give me any support, both issues I had I figured out myself and even posted on your script's page the solution to help other members, who had the same problem and didn't get any answer. Even you recognized my tip by saying thanks.

So again, accept donations, sell the script or change the way you link to your pages so it's not misleading to our members, or come up with some other solution to this obvious clash of opinions, because as you can see, I am not alone complaining.

This is free sharing of mods and most developers of vbulletin mods are famous not by insulting their fans, but rather by being nice and polite, which eventually shows by marked number of installations and lot of downloads.

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1838058)

Dave,

translateflags.php has a problem with default language settings.

Line for English (my default language) is adding this code to the end of my existing English pages: "&hl=en"

This creates double posts, because, example:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894&hl=en
is the same thing as:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894

Google would recognize this as two different pages and eventually ban my site for duplicate posting.

THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM WHICH NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

I've fixed this issue on my site already, by amending the line and getting rid of &hl=en references.

Dave, amend your code so your script doesn't get people's website banned or penalized by Google.

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid (Post 1837448)

So your base language is Polish and when transalting to all other languages some polish words are skipped, correct.

What about on my test site going from english to polish, are the words correct?

http://www.blogboost.org/showthread.php?t=1&hl=pl

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid (Post 1838063)

Banned hahhaha, more drama with you.

Google is smart enough to see this and just discount the duplicate, any SEO knows that, you noob.

You support it, you leech.

Whatever, im done, enjoy your buggy script.

Originally Posted by jarosciak (Post 1838110)

Don't call me names, I didn't do anything wrong.
I asked you to change the way you want me to link to you, that's all.
Offered to pay for your script and also offer to donate money to you.

Regarding being banned by Google for duplicate content, it's very simple:

I've seen two sites so far banned for duplicate content, just by adding a single new variable to the end of url. Exactly the samething as you're doing.

It may happen, or may not, but I've mentioned it, because it's a simple fix and people should know about it, to prevent such action rather then eventually being sorry about installing your script.

Google page to read more on this topic:
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=66359

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Originally Posted by joh (Post 1838114)

does this have any files to download because I do not see them