End-User Options - Forum Translator by Google

I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this, if so I apologize. I did find some other earlier versions of mods to use Google Translate, but could not find one similar and as simple to use as this.

In the footer template, find the first instance of:

</form>

Just below it add this:

<!-- Translate vBulletin -->
<div id="google_translate_element" class="footer_select"></div><script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
  new google.translate.TranslateElement({
    pageLanguage: 'en',
    multilanguagePage: true,
    gaTrack: true,
    gaId: 'UA-12345-12',
    layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE
  }, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script><script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
<!-- /Translate vBulletin -->

Remove the 2 lines in red if you don't use Google Analytics. If you do, edit the number to your own.

It's so simple I think this would work on any version of vB.

[tafreeh]

Thanks allot for this

[thedvs]

this messes with the thread titles when u go to edit them

seems to add code

[Infopro]

In my tests this had no effect on text areas whatsoever while editing.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by thedvs

this messes with the thread titles when u go to edit them

seems to add code

I'm running 4.04pl1 and have not had any problems with this ...

Regards,
Doug

[freddie3218]

This is great! However, how do you make it so that you only have 2 or 3 languages that it will translate? Is there a way to do it?

IE: English forum

Translated into French and Spanish.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Infopro

The only thing it might do is slow page load on a slow computer while the tool code is loaded from the google server, not yours.

Make your own depending on your needs.
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Originally Posted by freddie3218

This is great! However, how do you make it so that you only have 2 or 3 languages that it will translate? Is there a way to do it?

IE: English forum

Translated into French and Spanish.

you can customize it here

no issues with anything ..

[BadgerDog]

Ok, finished some testing ...

Great idea and adds a lot of value to users where the forum isn't in their native language, but for whatever reason, on our site it has a load penalty of between 3-4 seconds on home page, as an example.

If I remove this Google script, it speeds up etc ...

Although I don't have the skill, I think if this was a mod where the default language could be user selectable from a specific link and then when it went to that page, it only loaded the Google code then, it might be a compromise.

As is, I have to remove it from the footer as the drag on ALL individual page loading is too high...

Thanks anyway.. interesting mod ..

Regards,
Doug

[Infopro]

I did not test on a forum with as many cats as yours with googleads, groupon ads, livesupport, some sort of profilehover js and whatever else you've got going on there, which appears to be quite a bit.

Indeed, this may not be for everyone.

You can surely wrap this with if tags of some sort and only show it on certain forums. Or, set it as I have on my test forum to only show for guests.

GL!

[zelnik]

Using Firefox is anyone getting a constant "transferring data from translate.googleapis.com" in the status bar?!?!

Doesn't seem to do it on Chrome or IE?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Infopro

You can surely wrap this with if tags of some sort and only show it on certain forums. Or, set it as I have on my test forum to only show for guests.

GL!

Thanks for the link to that page. Has a lot of really good uses, other than solving our load problem.

The conditional we'd love to test for is one where the incoming user is NOT using English, but I have no idea how that would work. Regardless of what we use on our page which only usually takes 4.5-5 secs to load the entire home page without any caching at all, we've also tested this with other forums using Pingdom independent load analysis and the result is still a 15-20% load penalty, again, for whatever reason.

Originally Posted by zelnik

Using Firefox is anyone getting a constant "transferring data from translate.googleapis.com" in the status bar?!?!

Doesn't seem to do it on Chrome or IE?

Yes, constant while we were testing, but of course, disappeared when we un-installed it.

Regards,
Doug