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

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Bouncer222

Ok thanks imported silkroud!

Just another question, would it be ok if I run both mods? I'm guessing not since multiple urls for same language isnt good?

And, what if I uninstall the other mod? those urls will disappear right? (because obviously you don't want them to stay on there) and this mod generates more engine search related results than the other one?

EDIT: And I was looking at the demo and noticed that the urls for each language are yoursite.com/language , so if someone like me, who uses google analytics , how would I go about filtering out these languages so that I can look at the results to see how much visitors this translator is generating me through search engines?

Just see here:
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...anslation.html

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Audax666

OK,
Phase 1: multiply index pages by 10 - completed
Phase 2: multiply traffic by 10 - N.A.

Has anyone experience how the indexed pages rank on foreign google searches?
E.g. i have with my forum a no. 1 position with a keyword in my basic language. So I thought it would be nearly the same in other languages and the traffic would explode. But just a very slightly increasing of traffic from foreign countrys.
Does it just takes time to climb in the SERPS or is more realistic, that i won't get a good ranking in foreign language google search?
Just thinking aloud, maybe someone measured that with prof. tools.

Or ist that too off topic?

I'm not sure is this is answer for your question, but look here :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=623

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by GTX2

I think i'm having a problem with update similar threads....
Before installing vb translator i had about 60k threads....
Now i have about 3 million threads.... (information received in sitemaps report)....
when i try to update similar threads under maintenance i get stuck with many many many pages....

any way to sort this out?

vB does not see translated pages during update of similar threads indexes. It is because translated threads are not in your database (cache doesn't count here). vB see only your real threads so if you have issues with re-indexing is not related to vBET. vBET 2.x changes nothing in vBulletin native tables not in schema not in data (vBET 3.x only adds one column in user table for user default language).

[NLP-er]

I want to really, really, really

THANK YOU ALL

for allowing to win vBET MOTM :up:

And by all I mean all - all who use this mod. Not only who nominated (but of course for you special thanks ), also for those who just use it, because using this mod you made possible for others to see it and get it

In day like this (I just find out that won MOTM) I'm really happy to give for free all possibilities of vBET 2.x and have much more energy to integrate it with vB4

Once again - great thanks

[Audax666]

Thanks NLP-er for the graphic.
That let me hope for a "push" someday.

@CThiessen
But I don't know what the Adsense Bot should has to do with visitors?
It would explain if I got lots of visitors through translated pages but no adsense revenue.
But thats not the problem. The problem is that in despite of indexed pages are increasing so fast but the visitor count is still the same.

But glad to here that transleted pages can also rank well.
Do you got extra backlinks to the translated no2 positions oder does it all come from the "normal" forum backlinks, etc.

All in all its very exciting to see it growing and growing!

That's your effort NLP-er!:up:

[Zi55]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

About 1st one - it is not on my TODO list anymore so it should be corrected.

About Avant Explorer - honestly I didn't check it yet.

Do you have newest version and still have this issue?

Hello NLP-er,
First big congratulations for win in MOTM , about the bug , it simple to know how it works , it's fine in your site , but in all other sites who use 2.X vBET it have the same issue , go by firefox and choose any other language and then try to visit any other page in the same site you will be redirected to the main site languge , not for the the language you choose .
Thanks ,
Zi55

[NLP-er]

2.3.6 RELEASED

2 bugs fixed:
- Important fix! - there was issue with sending referrer header which is necessary by Google conditions.
- issue with # in translation links

It is recommended to update to last version, because it appears that 2.3.5 has bug and referal headers wasn't sending appropriate (or not at all to be honest ).

Update as always is very easy - just upload files and import product file

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Zi55

Hello NLP-er,
First big congratulations for win in MOTM , about the bug , it simple to know how it works , it's fine in your site , but in all other sites who use 2.X vBET it have the same issue , go by firefox and choose any other language and then try to visit any other page in the same site you will be redirected to the main site languge , not for the the language you choose .
Thanks ,
Zi55

Please PM me the URL and exact sequence which causes this

[yahooooh]

hello
after i contact google i get this:

Yes, I see that. But that doesn't indicate that the text of the current page has been translated. Any page which has been translated by Google Translate needs to be clearly and prominently marked as having been translated. Please add appropriate attribution (such as "Translations Powered by Google") near the top of the page so that it is clear to your visitors that the content that their seeing has been automatically translated by Google Translate.

so
i need to make the flags in the footer for original language and translated pages as they are but
when it be translated it should show another text under the navbar :
in the top of page :this page was has been automatically translated by Google Translate.

i add this manually now but it show also for untranslated pages
i need it only for translated pages

thank you and this what google stuff ask to add for translated pages
thank you

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by yahooooh

hello
after i contact google i get this:
so
i need to make the flags in the footer for original language and translated pages as they are but
when it be translated it should show another text under the navbar :
in the top of page :this page was has been automatically translated by Google Translate.

i add this manually now but it show also for untranslated pages
i need it only for translated pages

thank you and this what google stuff ask to add for translated pages
thank you

<if condition="$_GET['language']">
     HERE SOMESTHING WHAT SHOULD BE ONLY ON TRANSLATED PAGE
</if>

Also - I'm wondering it is in TOS that "Powered By Google" must be at the top (I have it, because I like it ) or they are just picky. Anyway - do what the man say and everything will back to normal