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 badawidollah

tonop 4219 32.0 6.0 140256 31920 ? S 23:42 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php
tonop 4224 0.0 4.7 131916 24992 ? R 23:42 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php


before i install this vbet
i not need to upgrade my share hosting to vps hosting

This is not how many resources are taken by vBET - this is how many resources are taken by whole your vBulletin. vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php acts only like Front Controller (more specifically like filter and then vbseo.php acts like front controller). If you open vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php you will see that it only makes few changes in server variables and then includes vbseo.php
Change your link type to language= and remove vBET .htaccess rules, and then you will see that vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php takes no resources at all. Because it doesn't - it is just a filter which grabs all requests by .htaccess that is why you see there ersources used by your whole vBulletin

Also - many of our users use shared hosting without any issues. It all depends on your needs. Please look here for optimization hints.
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...rformance.html

[wraggster]

hi went through a few pages and this mod does interest me lots, could i ask, does this mod help forums become more visible in other languages, ie my forum is an english forum, will google pick up the different language versions and give me a bump up from all the other languages ?

so say a spanish user looks for something in spanish will the spanish translation show up in google ?

[badawidollah]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

This is not how many resources are taken by vBET - this is how many resources are taken by whole your vBulletin. vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php acts only like Front Controller (more specifically like filter and then vbseo.php acts like front controller). If you open vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php you will see that it only makes few changes in server variables and then includes vbseo.php
Change your link type to language= and remove vBET .htaccess rules, and then you will see that vbenterprisetranslator_seo.php takes no resources at all. Because it doesn't - it is just a filter which grabs all requests by .htaccess that is why you see there ersources used by your whole vBulletin

Also - many of our users use shared hosting without any issues. It all depends on your needs. Please look here for optimization hints (for paid version, but some can be applied to free version also):
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...rformance.html

hello nlp-er
you right
vbet uninstalled but when i install ajax- advance, it show overload too

my vps ram 512MB
my visitors more than 8000/day

thanks for your help
vbet still the best
:up:

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by wraggster

hi went through a few pages and this mod does interest me lots, could i ask, does this mod help forums become more visible in other languages, ie my forum is an english forum, will google pick up the different language versions and give me a bump up from all the other languages ?

so say a spanish user looks for something in spanish will the spanish translation show up in google ?

In short words: yes

In webmaster tools I see that my forum is found by words which I do not understand (or often even cannot read it because have strange letters)

[demonfatal]

I get a big problem with your plugin: User can not register using the translation.

Why please?

[NLP-er]

Hi

I just improved integration code for vBET3.x and vBSEO Sitemap Generator

Old code was given by vBSEO staff and unfortunately it was very weak. There was lot of performance issues. I moved some code outside of the loop and now it is much faster and taking less resources Please note that if you already had integrated Sitemap Generator and want to made changes then you have to remove old code added for integration. You will find it between comments:

PHP Code:

//additional code 
HERE_IS_OUR_INTEGRATION_CODE
//end additional code 


Also please note that by default to sitemap will be added translated pages only for first thread pages. Previous solution was adding it to all thread pages (if thread had several pages) - there is note below how do to this if you still prefer this solutions

You will find integration instructions in this thread first post

[badawidollah]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Hi

I just improved integration code for vBET3.x and vBSEO Sitemap Generator

Old code was given by vBSEO staff and unfortunately it was very weak. There was lot of performance issues. I moved some code outside of the loop and now it is much faster and taking less resources Please note that if you already had integrated Sitemap Generator and want to made changes then you have to remove old code added for integration. You will find it between comments:

PHP Code:

//additional code 
HERE_IS_OUR_INTEGRATION_CODE
//end additional code 


Also please note that by default to sitemap will be added translated pages only for first thread pages. Previous solution was adding it to all thread pages (if thread had several pages) - there is note below how do to this if you still prefer this solutions

You will find integration instructions in this thread first post

better and better
:up:

[NLP-er]

Integration with sitemap generator was optimized again - please see first post for optimized integration code.

[xony]

Hello, now in version 3.8.x installed a mod, the enterprise translator or something, and the truth is that the operation did not like, I uninstalled as indicated by the author of the mod, but since then I have a problem in the sitemaps and her former URL packages sent 20,000 to 20,000, as a result of installing and uninstalling the mod, he appeared a funny thing, like this:



As you can see something wrong, he believed that moving to the vb 4, all this would be solved, but not, as usual, several times and deleted the complete sitemap of both the forum and google, and have been recreated and up from zero, but still the same.

Clarified that although he says there are 79 xitemaps, all you see are what is in the imgagen, such as no 1, 2, 3, 4 etc ... I guess they are all in the wrong, who has sent 3736723 URL, but of course does not work well.

Let's see if someone could help me out, thanks.

[theparentpack]

I don't think I made myself clear. For the forums that require you to be registered adn logged in, will the translator translate these private members only areas?

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Just block not relevant pages by robots.txt. Here you will find example of such file for SEO translated links:
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co....html#post1178