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:
PossumX, adwade, roymogg, zipperty, CoZmicShReddeR, RedHacker, john devost, mandingo, chris, smnoel, Audax666, Damas, TurkeySub, nectons, Scalemotorcars, TheWite, Cybershaolin, burlesque, Ransy72560, chick, jaryx, linuxututs, cormee, dai-kun x2 :up:, imported_silkroad, Megatr0n, KrisP, CareyCrew, ghisirds, vitoreis, cyc, mosz, CThiessen, actolearn, jaconi, andie215, yahoooh, bollie

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

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by KrisP

This is the testforum www.thegameonline.dk - it is a fresh copy of the real forum (have temporarily disabled the mod on the real forum www.thegame-online.dk).

Thanks. Sorry, I can't read it since I can't read DK (Irony). Maybe you could enable EN translation so we can read the content? Or, I guess not, since it Google is not translation for you now?

Anyway, I did notice Google Adsense was serving PSA ads on your site. That is not good.

[KrisP]

You mean PSA on the mothersite? - yes, but thats only sporadically for new content. Most threads have real ads.

If you want an EN translation you can use this link: xxx

[imported_silkroad]

Your site content seems fine.

Are you serving pop-ups or pop-under ads or similar intrusive ads?

Also, I recommend caution regarding this:

Translations delivered by vB Enterprise Translator
.....

Automatic Translations (Powered by Google ):

This is confusing to me. I am not sure Google would like this type of situation with their credit at the bottom and under a similar credit. It makes Google look so "small and not important" compared to a small provider.

Anyway, that is just my opinion.....

You need to ask Google directly and not guess. If you are serving pop ups or pop under ads, that will be a problem for Google, I think.

(Edit) PS: FWIW, better would be:

Automatic Translations Powered by Google

....

Forum Translation Software by vB Enterprise Translator

Also you need "Powered by Google" for translations near the content for every translated page. I recommend you put it at the top of each thread, not hidden at the bottom.

[KrisP]

I will move up the Google credentials to be on the safe side.

No popups - only adsense.

How do I get in contact with Google? I already posted at the Danish webmaster Google Help forum. I hope not they will ask me to post here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate because it seems Google representats arent answering peoples requests.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by KrisP

Google TOS states:

You will not, and will not permit your end users or other third parties to:


http://code.google.com/intl/da/apis/...age/terms.html

Seems many threads are more than 5000 characters in length - often 3 times as much ...

Looks like I have been blocked by Google and am trying to find out why. I have the Google logo in the bottom of the screen and have made sure cache is updated until now.

If you was blocked by Google it is not because of long messages. vBET has set $maxUrlLength = 1900; and it cuts long messages (smart algorithm - if exceeded then first will try to cud by whole sentences looking for dot, then by spaces and at the end just cut).

Please check what are Google responses in the way which I already described to you on vBET forum. Then we will know more, and hopefully we will solve this fast

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I agree completely. I read that post and was really shocked by the complete falsehood (lie) posted by marco at vbSEO. His post was an utter and complete lie. In most civil courts in the world, he would be liable to you and your business for such a statement. He better be careful, because you have so many customers who can speak for you otherwise.

I know for a fact that translations are important for the world. Machine translations, while not perfect, bring people closer together. Translations help people all over the world find information they might not normally find. Translations are an absolute blessing. They are the future of the Internet.

Always remember... the purpose of machine language translations is not SEO. This is wrong. The purpose of machine translation is to make your unique content available to the world. You are not optimizing search engines, you are making more content available for global users.

If you use a machine language package with only SEO in mind, you are making a big mistake, IMHO. Translation is about making information available, not SEO. If you get more traffic because information is available in many languages (and you will !!), that is because you have unique content available for many users and languages globally.

Be Responsible and Be a Good Internet Citizen. Do No Harm.

Thank you for your words. Especially I like the part about thankful users who know how it really looks and can speak in my name. I would really be glad if you support me in vBSEO discussion with your opinion

Edited
You will not get a chance for this - they closed booth threads...

[NLP-er]

Hi all. I suddenly feel great motivation to make vBET compatible with such products like:
- zoints SEO (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202739, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127336)
- clogic SEO (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=217309)
- TfSEO 2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173738)

And I'm talking here about free version. So if someone is using any of this SEO products and want to be able to use vBET 2.x on his forum I just need some test environment. If you will to set such test forum with installed SEO product just PM me details and I will take my best to give you possiblility of using vBET 2.x with SEO links with this products

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Thank you for your words. Especially I like the part about thankful users who know how it really looks and can speak in my name. I would really be glad if you support me in vBSEO discussion with your opinion

Edited
You will not get a chance for this - they closed both threads...

Yes, they should be ashamed of themselves. I think you will see a blog post on this topic soon, and you can point people to that blog article. When I see that article, I will let you know ...

[isatice]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Yes - simply edit your templates and add:

<if condition="!$_GET[language]">THIS WILL BE SHOWN ONLY ON NOT TRANSLATED PAGE</if>

(not tested - just put from hand)

But really I see no sense of avoiding of showing adsense for translated pages.

wow ur the best , works amazing
actually it's because in my forum main language is not English and it's against Google adsense rules to put ads
but now i can put ads in my English pages with ur great addon

voted for MOTM

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Hi all. I suddenly feel great motivation to make vBET compatible with such products like:
- zoints SEO (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202739, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127336)
- clogic SEO (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=217309)
- TfSEO 2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173738)

And I'm talking here about free version. So if someone is using any of this SEO products and want to be able to use vBET 2.x on his forum I just need some test environment. If you will to set such test forum with installed SEO product just PM me details and I will take my best to give you possiblility of using vBET 2.x with SEO links with this products

OK I made little investigation and all those SEO mods have similar way of working. I checked on paid version, so it is not officially confirmed, but it should work (please confirm if you use it)...

So everything what you need to be able to use vBET 2.x SEO translation links with your SEO engine is add this 2 rules BEFORE all rules for seo mod:

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

And of course set vBET SEO links on

I would really happy make it official statement and write it in FAQ, so really - if you appreciate this free product and you make it working with one of mentioned SEO products (or have issues) - please write about it