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

[chocolate angel]

i figured it out..thanks again for this great mod!!

[Audax666]

Hi,

does anybody else such weired urls?
http://www.sub-cultures.de/en/es/es/...20&language=en
(I found this link via baklinkcheck)
There are now two questions.
How can this happen and where is the origin place where the wrong link is shown?
And why does the url work with &language=en when in Vbet options
Translation links type = Create URL's according to SEO link consensus (i.e. '/en/address')
is activated?

Is .htaccess causing the problem?

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

#RewriteRule sc-(.*).php$ sc_p.php?term=$1 [L]

ErrorDocument 404 /error.php

# index.php index.php? und /? auf / umleiten
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}  \ /\?\ .*$ [or]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule .* /? [L,R=301]

# index.php?foo=bar auf /foo=bar umleiten
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
#RewriteRule index\.php / [L,R=301,QSA]

# foo.php? auf foo.php umleiten
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}  \ /.*\.php\?\ .*$
RewriteRule (.*) /$1? [L,R=301]


#vbseo sitemap
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

#rules for SEO translation links without vbSEO

RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|sq|ca|et|tl|gl|hi|id|lv|lt|mt|sl|uk|vi|cy|yi)/$ index.php?language=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?(af|sq|ar|be|bg|ca|zh-CN|hr|cs|da|nl|en|et|tl|fi|fr|gl|de|el|iw|hi|hu|is|id|ga|it|ja|ko|lv|lt|mk|ms|mt|no|fa|pl|pt|ro|ru|sr|sk|sl|es|sw|sv|zh-TW|th|tr|uk|vi|sq|ca|et|tl|gl|hi|id|lv|lt|mt|sl|uk|vi|cy|yi)/(.*)?$ $2?language=$1 [L,QSA]

Some facts:
I use Vbet 2.3.10
Homelanguage is 'DE' additional languages are 'EN', 'ES' and 'FR'

I would be glad, if someone could help me.

[kamilkurczak]

did you change in admincp->vbet->main ->Link Type to : VBSEO_URI

[stack24]

I just installed your add on to my forum at http://mfestforum.com/forum It works great and translates the pages but when you try to click on the default language of English it doesn't go back to it. It stays on the language that you translated it to. I have tried it on both Firefox and Chrome and it does this.

Anything that I am missing or did incorrectly? I don't have VBSEO setup.

[munnakv]

Thanks. Installed.
The malay flag shown is wrong.
You might want to change it.

[Dave Hybrid]

Ive run this mod since it started, yes it does bring traffic but it kills servers and has many other bugs, deformed pages, broken links to name a few. Just look at Google and Bing caches of your pages and in webmaster tools, many, many errors.

Until you sort the code out and the vbseo integration the rest of the vB community will continue to laugh at you. Seriously, im not being a +++++, i really like this product but you do not beta testing, have no bug testing, release bad code and it is slow as hell. Also making VBET users edit VBSEO files is a joke, and very unprofessional. VBSEO is an excellent product and you are undermining them.

Here is my server load after uninstalling VBET, the changes are dramatic. The server is a 32 core AMD with 8gigabytes of RAM and 4 SCSI 15k drives in RAID 10, a real powerhouse.

The only thing I have done is uninstall VBET completely, not just disable in vB admincp, as this still leaves the product installed due to all the custom file edits.



And here is Google webmaster tools reports for user page speed (data is delayed, still dropping) and crawler page speed, the results are dramatic. We're talking a up to a 10th of what it was, so 10 seconds load times down to 2! 700ms page crawl times down to 75ms.





So all you people like me whom like extra traffic, make sure you getting that and not trading foreign language traffic and upsetting off all your native speakers in the process with bad load times and deformed pages, broken links and also annoying Google and getting less native traffic than before installing. Seriously, I cannot emphasize how much this mod hurts your site.

Take note VBET, sort you code out you are doing nothing but harming vBulletin users and making money from it!

[tpearl5]

Dave, what version of the software were you running? I'm assuming you're running some kind of datastore cacher?

I've personally had great results with the latest version for 3.8. I've had vBET installed for a year now and my non-english speaking traffic is up 230%! (english speaking traffic is up 20% from last year)

[Dave Hybrid]

Yeah, xcache, vboptimise, powerful server, everything setup and tweeked to perfection. The stats dont lie, im still getting the same traffic still as google hasnt dropped the pages yet and load and everything is so low. Old translated content is currently 301'd to english. Must be the translated pages, there is no other explanation.

Im not disputing traffic increases, but check your forum, the mod creates broken pages, broken links all sorts, seriously, check everyone of your pages in a browser. Also, traffic hits is one thing, but is this increasing your posts/threads? is it turning off your regular members, all the foreign content mixed in with english, do you really know the effect it is having on your community other than more hits in server logs.

Id love to see your google wmt stats, what sort of page speed and crawl speed you are getting As soon as page speed becomes a bigger issue, people running this are going to see some serious traffic drops, big G wont tolerate 10sec page loads. And that is what wmt reports these pages as taking to render. wmt doesnt lie either.

[tpearl5]

Yeh, unfortunately my page load times weren't as good to begin with as they could be, but in my testing vBET didn't have a serious effect on load times. My bottleneck is apache and my webserver. I'm running vBO, memcache, nginx proxy, CDNs, etc. I've come to the conclusion that this simply won't be better until I have, at the least, a load balanced pair of powerful web servers + the database server. I wouldn't mind having a RAID 10 array either!

Where were you seeing broken links? I have several mods installed that are also translated (vbdynamics, a custom database) and haven't run across any issues.

Questions: Did you have all 52 languages enabled? From what I've experienced this is a big issue in itself. When google sees all those pages it starts crawling, which creates a serious load. The process of getting phrases and caching them for the first time is very intensive, regardless of how bug free the code is, especially if you have all 52 languages enabled. Then re-caching every 15 day cycles and serving up 52x of pages you have is just that, expensive. I only have 12 enabled and the space required to cache and serve up 150,000 threads isn't too bad, but yes, it does add to resources needed.

As far as the effects on the community go, I can see how there can be a negative effect. For my site there hasn't been simply because conversions into members was low to begin with. If it does become a problem, this is just another dimension of community management that has to be sorted. I've thought about handling different languages on many levels, including a corporate environment. The concept of translating on the fly in a community is the best way to handle this that I've seen.

[Dave Hybrid]

Load, page speed times and crawl page times are even worse while the cache is being built, all these stats are from a fully cached translation database, so being pulled from mysql, no writing. Broken links includes the breadcrumbs linking to pages that don exist, clone/duplicate pages being generated with bizarre query strings as urls. Similar threads disappearing and being posted in the post content instead of the actuall post text, all sorts. Also, when checking many thousands of pages in the cache of google and bing finding pages being cut off, so only being indexed upto post 5 of a 20 post thread, footers missing, all sorts. This is because the bots dont crawl like a browser and the bots generate pages with errors, the issue is if the bot is first to the page, it is translated wrong and then every user that accesses it sees the bad generation from cache. I could go on, basically for any serious SEO it is a wild goose, you have no way of controlling it, it messes with too much. I like control, without this mod my site code is 100% perfect, with it im constantly chasing bugs. IMO those that havent seen these serious SEO bugs are thos that have not properly searched for them or dont know how to spot them, no offence. They are not always obvious. Seriously uninstall for just a few days and check all your stats, you'd be amazed. I'd been running it so long i thought these high figures were normal. I tried vbo, CDN, new servers everything and all it took was to remove this to get all the metrics reporting desirable results.