Forum Display Enhancements - vB Enterprise Translator

2.3.15 RELEASED - TRANSLATIONS NEVER WERE SO FAST!!!

Great thanks to all who nominate vBET and allow us to win MOTM :up:

This mod translates your forum using FREE translations for over 30 languages from Yandex API. It is 100% FREE in version described here (2.x).
Note: using this mod (vBET 2.x) is free and bound by license agreement (see below)

Yandex translation gives you 1 000 000 FREE characters per DAY to translate. Please note that Yandex do not supports all language pairs, but vBET detects automatically which are supported for your forum language.

Version for vBulletin 4.0 is here: vBET 2.4.x for vBulletin 4.0

vBET 3.x released!
Please note that vBET 3.x is developed as separate product line and it is available here: vBET 3.x. Full version is paid, it supports 53 languages each to each translation, using: Google, Microsoft, Apertium, Yandex, SDL BeGlobal and DetectLanguage. It has lot of optimizations for booth performance and translations costs.

LIVE DEMO - note that demo shows functionality of full version (3.x/4.x), which has more features than 2.x
See also screen shots below, for configuration options

Features:
- Translation by Yandex (in PRO version supports 53 languages using several translation providers)
- Optimized cache, algorhitms and more performance options - PRO version only
- Translates URLs and RSS - PRO version only
- Supports multi language communities (allows to write in different languages) - PRO version only
- Links appropriate for SEO consensus (configurable) - even without any SEO mod
- Long texts are translated no matter how big those are
- Translation cache (after first translation results are cached and next page generation is much faster)
- Doesn't translate BB codes for code, php and html (must refresh post cache to see effect on existing posts Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Post Cache)
- Easy installation - just upload files and import product file
- Highly configurable and easy configuration - by Admin CP (see screenschots)
- Configurable place for flags - simply select in options where you want to have translation flags. NO MANUAL TEMPLATE MODIFICATION. Supported: Footer-Bottom, Footer-Top, Navbar-Bottom, Navbar-Top, Custom
- Possible custom place for flags - in such case just edit template which you want and add $vbenterprisetranslatorflags
- Translates also archive pages
- Reverse page direction for Arabic, Hebrew and Persian languages
- Not translated save areas - if you need something to be not translated simply edit appropriate template and put it between
<!--START vBET NOT TRANSLATED AREA--> and <!--END vBET NOT TRANSLATED AREA--> (note: you cannot use any mod which removes comments to use this functionality)

Installation:
1. Download zip package (last release - see index at the end of file name)
2. Upload to your forum directory on server everything inside upload directory
3. Import in vB Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product -> Choose product file, set Allow Overwrite to yes and click Import
4. Click here: "Mark as Installed" Thanks!
5. Configure in AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> vB Enterprise Translator
You MUST configure at least Forum language and Yandex Translation API key. NOTE that there are some other important options - especially if your forum is in subdirectory or if you use vbSEO.

For MORE INFO and troubleshooting please read first post There is FAQ. So save your time for writing questions which are already answered and get your solution faster

Known issues:
- link for page on which you are doesn't track translation, cause it has same URL as flag for forum default language

ENJOY! :up:

And thanks for nominations

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LICENSE AGREEMENT - using this mod you agree for those conditions:
- you are NOT allowed to remove credit link under any conditions
- removing credit link means BREAKING LICENSE AGREEMENT and you lose your rights to use this mod
- using it after that is illegal, it is software PIRACY and it will be notified in vBulletin community and other places, including appropriate government/police units in your country
- author of this mod reserves the right to change the terms of this license agreement at any time. Failure to receive notification of a change does not make those changes invalid. A current copy of this license is and will be available here.

Please note that in full vBET version there is possibility to buy branding free license. There is no such possibility in free version included here.

Version history:
2.3.15 Changes:
- Fixed canonical link
- Fixed issue with SSL verification
2.3.14 Changes:
- Added 48 new languages pairs
- Updated link to Yandex in configuration
- When translation limit is reached now we show original text instead of empty message
2.3.13 Updated link to Yandex API key
2.3.12 Google changed to Yandex translations
2.3.11 Added "Affiliate Program" parameter
2.3.10 Footer bug corrected
2.3.9 userip added to Google translation request + small bug fixed
2.3.8 Small bug fixed - now all supported languages can be chosen as forum default language
2.3.7 Bugs fixed:
- weird redirections with vbet_lang
- double language in URL
- changing text direction for specific languages
Added support for:
- usernames not translated in who is online
- supported URL replacements for canonical URL
2.3.6 Important fix! - there was issue with sending referrer header which is necessary by Google conditions. This one was fixed + issue with # in translation links
2.3.5 Important change - According to Google conditions referrer header must be added to each translation query - otherwise you can be banned by Google. Install this version to avoid any troubles.
Changes:
- Added referrer header for Google translation queries
- Corrected bug for returning to forum main page from translated page
Also according to actual Google conditions your "Powered by Google" information should have Google logo. So please change text for flags in your vBET configuration to something like this:

Automatic Translations (Powered by <span style="vertical-align:sub;"><img src="http://www.google.com/uds/css/small-logo.png" alt="Powered by Google" border="0"/></span>):

You can customize it but "Powered by Google" should stay.
2.3.4 Important bug fixed! Corrected translation of meta keywords and description
2.3.3 Important bug fixed! And also some other bugs fixed
- Fixed bug with shifted results caching
- Fixed bug for URLs to javascript functions
- Fixed bug for not translating usernames in postbit
- Little cosmetic changes
2.3.2 Really little changes.
- Changed default value of "Links title" attribute, to be more accurate for Google conditions
- Little template changed for flags, so "Link title" font will be smaller (just like vB info in footer)
- Small bug fixed
2.3.1 Some little bug fixes. Confirmed working with vbSEO 3.3.1 and confirmed working SEO links on forums with vbSEO and subdirectory in URL
2.3.0 Great news for those without vbSEO
- Supports translation SEO links even without vbSEO
- Translate Google Maps (configurable)
- Little optimizations (i.e. included only necessary things for not translated pages)
- Supports several cache cleaning strategies (optimization for really big forums) and automatically disables cache for cleaning time to avoid read/write conflicts
2.2.1 Small bug fixed with returning to default language for main page and SEO links (happens only for specific vbSEO configuration, so you don't need to update if 2.2.0 is working for you)
2.2.0 Translation tracking is working even when redirection by some mod occures (configurable reaction time)
2.1.0 9 new translation languages added! Also:
- Redirect to user language functionality - configurable (disabled, forced, after asking user does he want to be redirected).
- Fixed bug for SEO links with forums acting like directories by id.
- Corrected several flags
Update note: if you use SEO links you must change .htaccess file according to description in first post. If you changed any vbseo.php rules ? un-change those.
2.0.3 Quick bug fixing (issue with bitfields in options panel)
2.0.2 Added option to set your forum main domain for tracking URL's in subdomains
2.0.1 Small bug fixed and added direction changing suport also for Hebrew
2.0.0 Some small or medium changes and one big - for vbSEO users now SEO consensus links available.
What's new:
- Links appropriate for SEO consensus (configurable)
- Persian support added
- Doesn't translate BB codes for code, php and html (must refresh post cache to see effect on existing posts Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Post Cache)
- Reverse page direction for Arabic and Persian languages
- Option to set forum directory if not linked to domain
- Few bugs fixed
1.1.1 Some little changes and bugs fixed
- Re-encode not translated parts, so there is no strange signs in scripts, images title etc.
- Corrected flag for Sweden
- Few harmless bug fixed in translation tracking and cache disabling
- Respecting Google conditions default flags title have link to Google (configurable)
1.1.0 Lot of new features and no longer in beta stage
- Long texts are translated no matter how big those are
- Cache is working for chosen languages (you simply select for each language does translations should be cached)
- Option to add Google Translate API key for translation requests
- Configurable cache time to live and scheduled task which automatically remove old cache.
- Option to show flags only for guests
- Option to easily remove flags border (without any style changing)
- Option to not translate usernames
- During translation changes param lang in html tag
- Option to translate messages changed by vBSEO to JavaScript (it has such functionality for SEO purposes)
1.0.5 Flags showing correctly for forums in subdirectory + corrected returning to base language
1.0.4 Bug fixed with translation of '0' string. Also added little feature - if some parts of your forum uses vbSEO and some are not then now flags will have appropriate URL's everywhere
1.0.3 Big bug fixed Mod doesn't mess in template anymore (it did in some specific cases)
1.0.2 Small bug fixed - error with array merge solved
1.0.1 Small bug fixed - now choosing supported languages in options works fine
1.0.0 Great mod released

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by RidinHighSpeeds

I think that option would be great man.. Is that configurable in the settings itself or would I need to add a script to perform the auto-switching?

Thanks..

It wouldn't be great - it already is See option Redirect to user language.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by MayerZwo

Hello,

I would love to install this Mod if it would be possible to show the Flags only to certain Usergroups.
Is there any simple Code Modification to show the Flags only for certain Usergroup IDs ?

Nice work!
Michael

At this moment you have option to show flags only for guests. So if you fallow by this option you can simply modify appropriate condition and hardcode there some other usergroups

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by drhorev

Hi I have vBulletin 3.8.6 PL1 & vB Enterprise Translator 2.3.10 installed, and I have some issue with translating the registration page.
When someone go into the registration page by the translation feature (f.e. /en/register.php)and he accept the rules (by checking the confirmation checkbox) and click on the register button - from some reason, the input's page doesn't translated and if he translating this page by clicking one of the languages flags, he get this system message:
"You have chosen not to accept the forum rules, so registration cannot continue.

Click here to return to the main forums page, or click the 'Back' button on your browser if you now want to agree with the forum rules."

How can I resolve that issue?

Please note that free version do not support multilingual community and that it is why it works this way. This is expected behaviour for free version.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by mmllc

I had to disable this mod and abandon it pretty much.

WIthin seconds, not minutes, or hours, SECONDS of activation the entire server crashed. I said, impossible for it to be the mod, must be the server slow.

Sure enough, this mod created so much strain on the dedicated server that I got an email, literally, 10 years of hosting websites, never got an email suggesting that I need to upgrade a server and I get 1500 unique and 10000 page views daily for months now. No problems until the second I install the mod. So im sitting there with a dead website, slower than anything, finally able to go to product manager, disable the VBET and get rid of those entries in my htaccess which also were directing me and my guests all over the place (instead of where they click).

I've been through this thread alot and are you sure about those HTACCESS entries, they seem to work and translate stuff, but when you click things in the ADMINCP it literally takes you to FORUMHOME.

Not mad or anything, you put a lot of work into it, it just reeked havoc on my website this morning. Website back to normal after disabling this.

I cannot tell any specific explanation without possibility to go there and investigate. At this moment I can only speculate. It could be because of some .htaccess bug, or wrong vBSEO integration (if you have such) - what could cause looped redirections. Have no other clue. If you want to investigate this - please PM me. Also please note that free version takes more resources, so we have faster solutions.

[vo danh]

Okey I have this problem when I go to ACP ~> Opention ~> vB Enterprise Translator
An error occurred while processing the bitfield files, the following information was returned:
at the tab Show flags for languages ~> Cache details - next part 2
I sure that I follow right the instruction
Anybody can help me T.T

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by vo danh

Okey I have this problem when I go to ACP ~> Opention ~> vB Enterprise Translator
An error occurred while processing the bitfield files, the following information was returned:
at the tab Show flags for languages ~> Cache details - next part 2
I sure that I follow right the instruction
Anybody can help me T.T

Please try to install vBET again - upload all necesary files again and import product file again. I have no idea why it could work wrong here - please note that configuratio management is handled by vBulletin native code. So if it will still not work - please ask vB team for help.

[SpeedyHire]

works a treat all over the forums, apart from the shout box
but het thats not biggie,

thnaks for the great mod.

Regards

Speedy

[MOGmartin]

Hi,

Ive got the paid version of your script, and have had to create a custom flag list (my theme is highly customised).

The base language of my site is set to english, and on the template that I created I set the english flag to go to:

domain.com/

When a user is viewing the site in for instance, Spanish, that same link on the English flag goes to domain.com/es/

I NEED that flag to go to the site root. how do I achieve this please?

thanks

MOGmartin

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by MOGmartin

Hi,

Ive got the paid version of your script, and have had to create a custom flag list (my theme is highly customised).

The base language of my site is set to english, and on the template that I created I set the english flag to go to:

domain.com/

When a user is viewing the site in for instance, Spanish, that same link on the English flag goes to domain.com/es/

I NEED that flag to go to the site root. how do I achieve this please?

thanks

MOGmartin

As I remember this was solved by our forum for pro version. Please keep pro issues in pro forum. This is place only for free version.

[chocolate angel]

hi..i'm really excited to have this mod on my forum. however, i've tried to install it 3 times and the flags are not showing on my page. what am i doing wrong? thanks