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

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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 yahooooh

another 2 issues:

1.
i found some spiders use lang atrr in url twice and some of them tribble
like :
www.mysite.com/en/sk/forum/index.html

as u see this may duplicate contents is there any httaccess to redirect them to the first language to prevent duplicate contents

2.
when translated pages , the links that has nofollow it will be without this nofollow
i use vbseo to add nofollow to all php files also to external link
i see it will be lost after translated

1. This is same what you wrote in last post
2. vBET do not reduce any properties in a tag. Also vBET do not change any outside links. During translation tracking only links to forum are updated and only href param is changed. Nothing more.

[yahooooh]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

1. This is same what you wrote in last post
2. vBET do not reduce any properties in a tag. Also vBET do not change any outside links. During translation tracking only links to forum are updated and only href param is changed. Nothing more.

i need at least any htacss to prevent double using of langiage like : en/ar/

about nofollow it works ok


also

i disable
Canonical URL's with vbseo
because when i enable it
this will make all translated pages to give :
<link rel="canonical" href=
to the origin so it will make them as double content and ask the search engine to ignore them

i hope this will be fixed and thank you for your great work :up:

[yahooooh]

suggestion :

i use the vbseo for all of my site and subdomain
i need to make exclude for 2 of my subdomain

[segwayon]

My site seems to put out this error at the top of the page twice whenever I select a non-English flag:

"Warning: mysql_ping() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given in [path]/includes/vbenterprisetranslator_functions.php on line 495"

Any suggestions on what is causing it would be appreciated.

Edit: Also, I noticed as a test that whenever a Spanish user selects to translate into Spanish a post written in German from a forum with an English default language, the mod translates German words which look like English into Spanish as if the source language is English, and leaves the non-English-looking German words alone. Can you alter the mod to set the "source language" to "auto" so that Google translations can auto-detect? There may be other boards which use multiple languages.

Edit2: I notice that the page "online.php" ("Currently Active Users") will translate the user names. Also, those error messages listed above don't appear on the forum homepage, but will appear within a forum or a thread.

[plomaha]

I can't register on your site because the Verification Image does not appear in any browser i try. I'm interested in purchasing the mod, and want to know if you offer installation service. Please pm me.
Thank you

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by RaSa

Thank you for this great MOD! :up:

My question: I use Google Webmaster tools. That shows me double content and double tags as issue.

PHP Code:

/no/showthread.php?p=428722
/showthread.php?language=no&p=428722

/tags.php?language=tr&tag=test
/tr/tags.php?tag=test

/pt/tags.php?tag=test
/tags.php?tag=test&language=pt 


O, when I use your https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....67&postcount=2

PHP Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=|language=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%2/$1? [L,R=301] 


then I get links like .../no/showthread.php or .../no/tags.php and a loop. I have no VBSEO installed, only the free vBSEO Sitemap Generator. Here my .htaccess:

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^open-speech.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.open\-speech\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

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

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (hl=|language=)(zh-TW|zh-CN|..) 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%2/$1? [L,R=301] 


Put the rule about language= before other rules.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by oldfan

Would this work with 3.6X versions? thanks

Have no idea. You need to try. If not - uninstall, if yes - enjoy :up:

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by smnoel

NPL-er,

Is this compatible with vbulletin blog?
I'm having some issues with the jelsoft blog working with this. Let me know what you would need or if you have any suggestions.

Here is one of the many error messages I am getting. They all stem from the blog on the forums.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT cache.originaltext as originaltext, cache.translated as translated FROM vbenterprisetranslator_cache_short help, vbenterprisetranslator_cache_short cache WHERE help.originaltext='cleaning+mode+frugal-fannie' AND help.tl='tr' AND cache.serie=help.serie;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Monday, December 14th 2009 @ 03:25:49 PM
Error Date : Monday, December 14th 2009 @ 03:27:19 PM
Script : http://www.frugalvillage.com/forums/...28&language=tr
Referrer :
IP Address : 61.247.222.83
Username : <!--START vBET NOT TRANSLATED AREA-->Unregistered<!--END vBET NOT TRANSLATED AREA-->
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

I'm running this on a dedicated server with 8 Core/8 GIG Ram.
Obviously something is not right.

P.S. I did not realize you were selling the addon. I donated here. Would like to get it up and running first before investing further.

Looks like a great addon.


thanks,

At this moment blogs translations are not supported and never was tested, because blogs are not native vBulletin functionality and requires paid addon. I'm planning to support blogs translation. At this moment there is also lot of other work

The message which you get tells you that your mysql server disabled connection. This can happen if vBET is waiting too long for translation from Google. vBET has build in functionality to reconnect, but as I wrote for blogs it wasn't tested.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by asking

In my google webmaster account i notice this lost of crawl errors.
this is the example crawl error links.

http://www.example.com/bg/tags.php?tag=mad

when click on that it redirect me to this page

http://www.example.com/tags/?vbet_lang=bg&redirected=/tags.php

with this error

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
Please help me.

This is already corrected, but not released yet. It will be released soon also with other little corrections

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Cybershaolin

Are you moving because vBet forum is not reachable anymore! It's redirecting to one of your other forums I guess???

This was because of server moving and DNS changes. Right now vBET forum is running great on new server