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

Already donated (great thanks:up:
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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]

Just a message to great users who set option to show flags only for guests.

Maybe you will be interested about hiding last post date for guests (less translations )

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=218723

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I think we both lost each other on images as that was never an issue just that Webdeveloper Plus mod I provided a link to in a previous post, that would translate but the DB error resulted form text in that however we know now that the table was never created so that was not the cause of the error

And MySQL version per the previously posted DB error:



I'll drop that table ASAP and try the new, thanks for the revision and prompt replies .

S-MAN

Ok, table gone new one up and settings are correct:

URL tracking
If on then to URL's from your forum domain will be added language param. In other words with this option when you translate to some language, then going to other page will keep translation. = YES

It still won't carry over

Still nice they can simply click but it would be nice :erm: but if you think of anything else let me know & thanks regardless for the help.

S-MAN

[T2x]

Okay I have updated my vBSEO url formatting code ONE MORE TIME

And hopefully this is the final time that it will be necessary.

I had come to the realization that I was using an old version of the vBSEO htaccess and that although the code worked okay for some people, anybody with the latest version would have problems.

The code is updated now to take both situations into account so it will work with the latest version and be backwards compatible for a few versions back

You can find the post here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=181

[Sweeks]

Originally Posted by T2x

Okay I have updated my vBSEO url formatting code ONE MORE TIME

And hopefully this is the final time that it will be necessary.

I had come to the realization that I was using an old version of the vBSEO htaccess and that although the code worked okay for some people, anybody with the latest version would have problems.

The code is updated now to take both situations into account so it will work with the latest version and be backwards compatible for a few versions back

You can find the post here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=181

It never worked this time unfortunately for me. I still get URLs in this format:

http://www.teenforumz.com/?language=sl

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by T2x

Okay I have updated my vBSEO url formatting code ONE MORE TIME

And hopefully this is the final time that it will be necessary.....

We quickly tried it and our board crashed...

I'll look into more this weekend.

Thanks for trying so hard, T2x ! :up:

[imported_silkroad]

For reference, we are running all our .htaccess code here on Ubuntu:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

<Directory /site/wwwroot/>

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.site\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(lang/|competition/|admincp/|modcp/|cron|redir\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(competition|admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

#               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
#               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron|vbtest)
#               RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]


#               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
#               RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

</Directory>

[Lee G]

Originally Posted by Sweeks

It never worked this time unfortunately for me. I still get URLs in this format:

http://www.teenforumz.com/?language=sl

Same with my forum. Be one of those laws by a guy called sod that will no doubt be at fault

[imported_silkroad]

I noticed that many forums "before adding this new vBSEO code" if you try:

http://www.site.com/ar/

or

http://www.site.com/ar/link.html

(like our site)

Your get the attached error message: Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

FYI for T2x.

This error apparently happens in:

./includes/class_dm_forum.php

as

$this->error('invalid_forum_specified');

So, it seems that somewhere vB thinks that the first /en/ or /es/ or /aaa/ is a forum.

Perhaps this is not interesting or relevant... just FYI.

[chick]

Donated, thank you, MOTM vote. This is a great tool.

[T2x]

Originally Posted by Sweeks

It never worked this time unfortunately for me. I still get URLs in this format:

http://www.teenforumz.com/?language=sl

The code I provided will not modify your flags, that is still to come.

Install just the vbseo.php code I provided and then try something like http://www.teenforumz.com/de/index.php


As far as imported_silkroad, I went over the code he sent me back and it turns out when he was modifying it he made a small typo that ended up causing the crash.

Also

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I noticed that many forums "before adding this new vBSEO code" if you try:

FYI for T2x.

This error apparently happens in:

./includes/class_dm_forum.php

as

$this->error('invalid_forum_specified');

So, it seems that somewhere vB thinks that the first /en/ or /es/ or /aaa/ is a forum.

Perhaps this is not interesting or relevant... just FYI.

Yes this is to be expected, what my code does is entirely remove that first part that corresponds to the language from ever being seen by vBSEO or vB.

Effectively if you type in /de/index.php, vBSEO and vB will believe the page you are accessing is index.php?language=de