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

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[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Yes, wrap them in conditionals so the flags only show on certain pages, i only put them on my showthread pages and to guests because those are the one that will pull the traffic and use the flags.

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<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,1)">
<if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread')">
-code-
</if>
</if>

:up: that works better for me as well

[merkaz]

In the database i see the " originaltext "
But the " translated " is empty ...

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by merkaz

In the database i see the " originaltext "
But the " translated " is empty ...

I cant check anything without a url?

[tpearl5]

I'm trying to figure out a way I could use this with vbSEO. Ideally the url's should be in the format site.com/xx/thread_name/ where xx is the language abbreviation. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, is there any reason that links on the translated page shouldn't be to the translated version of corresponding page? Otherwise the user would have to keep clicking their flag for each new page.

[T2x]

Hey dave, very nice plugin.

I figured it out for you

<!--notranslatestart-->
Do not translate this text
<!--notranslateend-->

That is the syntax.

Change the plugin code to the following:

// Enable UTF-8 characters
if(isset($_GET['hl'])) {
 require_once("translate.php");
$output = str_replace('lang="en"', 'lang="'.$_GET['hl'].'"', $output); 
 header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
// Keep remainders of <style and <script tags!
    $time = time(); // Unique Tag Identifier!
    preg_match_all('|<script[^>]*>(.*?)</script>|si', $output,$scripttags, PREG_SET_ORDER);
    for($i=0;$i<count($scripttags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace($scripttags[$i][0], "<a name=\"$i\"></a>",$output);
    }       
    //preg_match_all("<style[^>]*>.*</style>",$buffer,$styletags);
    preg_match_all('|<style[^>]*>(.*?)</style>|si',$output,$styletags);
    for($i=0;$i<count($styletags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace($styletags[1][$i], "<a name=\"s$i\"></a>",$output);
    }
	preg_match_all('|<!--notranslatestart-->(.*?)<!--notranslateend-->|si', $output,$notranslatetags, PREG_SET_ORDER);
    for($i=0;$i<count($notranslatetags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace($notranslatetags[$i][0], "<a name=\"t$i\"></a>",$output);
    }   
$output=callback($output);
// Place back remainders of <style and <script tags!
	for($i=0;$i<count($styletags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace("<a name=\"t$i\"></a>", $notranslatetags[$i][0], $output);
    }
    for($i=0;$i<count($styletags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace("<a name=\"s$i\"></a>", $styletags[1][$i], $output);
    }
    for($i=0;$i<count($scripttags);$i++)
    {
        $output = str_replace("<a name=\"$i\"></a>",$scripttags[$i][0] ,$output);
    }
//print_r($scripttags);
//die("c:".count($scripttags).":".count($styletags));
}

Also you are going to make google angry.

You need to add a

@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER,"http://$_SERVER[SERVER_NAME]$_SERVER[VBSEO_URI]");

(this is vbseo only code)
according to google.

and adding an api key to the request doesn't hurt.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html

at http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation

it says:

Flash and other Non-Javascript Environments

For Flash developers, and those developers that have a need to access the AJAX Language API from other Non-JavaScript environments, the API exposes a simple RESTful interface. In all cases, the method supported is GET, and the response format is a JSON encoded result with embedded status codes. For google.language.translate, the POST method is available. Applications that use this interface must abide by all existing terms of use. An area to pay special attention to relates to correctly identifying yourself in your requests. Applications MUST always include a valid and accurate http referer header in their requests. In addition, we ask, but not require, that each request contains a valid API Key. By providing a key, your application provides us with a secondary identification mechanism that is useful should we need to contact you in order to correct any problems.

so basically you just change the request to look like this

@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&key=KEYHERE&langpair=".urlencode($fl.'|'.$tl)."&q=".urlencode ($text));

[T2x]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I'm trying to figure out a way I could use this with vbSEO. Ideally the url's should be in the format site.com/xx/thread_name/ where xx is the language abbreviation. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, is there any reason that links on the translated page shouldn't be to the translated version of corresponding page? Otherwise the user would have to keep clicking their flag for each new page.

As far as vbseo urls, im not sure you would be able to make it work unless you changed your entire url structure and made existing urls be site.com/en/thread_name/

As for HREF rewriting, I checked the code and I believe its a feature dave is working on but currently its not in place.

The idea is to boost search traffic not to provide a comprehensive translation experience.

The google translation gadget offers a much faster translation experience for users if this is what you are looking for:

http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I'm trying to figure out a way I could use this with vbSEO. Ideally the url's should be in the format site.com/xx/thread_name/ where xx is the language abbreviation. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, is there any reason that links on the translated page shouldn't be to the translated version of corresponding page? Otherwise the user would have to keep clicking their flag for each new page.

Rewrite the URLs from ?hl= to directorys using htaccess

[T2x]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Rewrite the URLs from ?hl= to directorys using htaccess

good point. I just realized that that would actually be pretty easy

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Rewrite the URLs from ?hl= to directorys using htaccess

Right, but what about words in the URL being translated?

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Right, but what about words in the URL being translated?

You're asking if we can do that?

As far as I'm aware domain names and URLs are only allowed in English, that just the way the net is...