Miscellaneous Hacks - vB Global Translator - Multiply your indexed pages & put search traffic on autopilot

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[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

ok i left it installed overnight and i checked the mysql tables and this is what it looks like



still not loading anything in the cache table. and when i click any flags, nothing is loading for me. any ideas?

You can always set $enablecache = false; in translate.php - then you will know does your page translates at all. I'm quite sure that cache is not an issue here and we can be sure by temporary disabling it.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Geraldm

Well I installed the new version 2.0 script yesterday.

My forum currently has 4,745 threads and 17,052 posts and today my DB looks like this:



34.7MB in 24 hours ?!!?!? I'll let you know how big this DB gets after a week.....

Cheers, and thanks for the great script!

Regards,
Gerald.

Well - in vb you have 1 content. Here it is multiplied for each translation. As long as you have space on server - who cares?...

[Dave Hybrid]

Exactly, would you delete normal posts because your DB got a big big?

No, you'd keep them and upgrade the server if needed, so what's the difference... lol.

People worried about gaining too much content, that's a new one he he.

[T2x]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

You certainly can't be hurting anything by including an API key.

Here's another question... How about displaying flags based on where the IP is from? I understand this would involve a small index of IP's, but perhaps it could be an exclusion. For example, 'if not from US, display flags'

edit - nevermind - that would be a very large index either way that would have to be referenced on every visit, which sounds very expensive

Nah its actually very easy to do. I have an ip database on my site which performs a similar function.

I would recommend using javascript instead to read the browser language.

var nav_lng="nolang"; //default language string
if(navigator.language)nav_lng=navigator.language;
else if(navigator.browserLanguage)nav_lng=navigator.browserLanguage;
else if(navigator.userLanguage)nav_lng=navigator.userLanguage;
else if(navigator.systemLanguage)nav_lng=navigator.systemLanguage;
else if(window.navigator.language)nav_lng=window.navigator.language;

for example, for english visitors the nav_lng variable will then contain either en-US or en-GB(for users from the UK or AU)


I actually have dynamic javascript translation going on as well right now using this and it works fine.

[burlesque]

I was also getting the blank page when I clicked on a flag, however when I set the caching to 'false' it translated fine.

However, when I add set the cache to 'true' I get the white page again.

But if I set the cache to false once again, everything translates fine, until I set the cache to 'true'...

.. and then I get a blank page again.

The db has been installed correctly but I'm at a loss as to why this happens.

[music legend]

Originally Posted by burlesque

I was also getting the blank page when I clicked on a flag, however when I set the caching to 'false' it translated fine.

However, when I add set the cache to 'true' I get the white page again.

But if I set the cache to false once again, everything translates fine, until I set the cache to 'true'...

.. and then I get a blank page again.

The db has been installed correctly but I'm at a loss as to why this happens.

where is the caching option you turned off?

[burlesque]

in translate.php

$enablesession = false; //ignore
$enablecache = false; //true - enable cache setting, false - disable cache setting

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Exactly, would you delete normal posts because your DB got a big big?

No, you'd keep them and upgrade the server if needed, so what's the difference... lol.

People worried about gaining too much content, that's a new one he he.

exactly I'm very happy when new posts arrives on my forum - more is better, or people will go somewhere where they will find what they are looking for...

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by burlesque

I was also getting the blank page when I clicked on a flag, however when I set the caching to 'false' it translated fine.

However, when I add set the cache to 'true' I get the white page again.

But if I set the cache to false once again, everything translates fine, until I set the cache to 'true'...

.. and then I get a blank page again.

The db has been installed correctly but I'm at a loss as to why this happens.

In such case cache is an issue here. Can you PM to me some more details? I will gladly see what is gooing on

[music legend]

yeah that fixed my white screen as well when i turned it to false it worked

if its set to true i just get the white screen