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

[Mapo]

Hello,
I am trying to register in your site to purchase vBET, but the image verification is not working.

[kamilkurczak]

Originally Posted by BOSS 302

So if I install this will it automatically translate my forum for users/guests from other countries like france? Or do they have to select the option some where first? If so where?

User can change a translation. Already free version on vBET support 52 languages.
vBET translate all languages to all languages.

[kamilkurczak]

Originally Posted by Mapo

Hello,
I am trying to register in your site to purchase vBET, but the image verification is not working.

tested. image verification is working good.

[kamilkurczak]

hello,

I would like to invite you to join to vBET main forum to make posts in subforum for vBET free version.
url: http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.com/forum/free-version-vbet2-3-x/

thanks

[NLP-er]

Hello

Great news: vBET Pro supports other translations API! You do not have to worry anymore that Google will close it's API or make it paid.

For all details please see here:
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...-released.html

[Manoel J?nior]

No more updates for version 3.8?

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Ive run this mod since it started, yes it does bring traffic but it kills servers and has many other bugs, deformed pages, broken links to name a few. Just look at Google and Bing caches of your pages and in webmaster tools, many, many errors.

Until you sort the code out and the vbseo integration the rest of the vB community will continue to laugh at you. Seriously, im not being a +++++, i really like this product but you do not beta testing, have no bug testing, release bad code and it is slow as hell. Also making VBET users edit VBSEO files is a joke, and very unprofessional. VBSEO is an excellent product and you are undermining them.

Here is my server load after uninstalling VBET, the changes are dramatic. The server is a 32 core AMD with 8gigabytes of RAM and 4 SCSI 15k drives in RAID 10, a real powerhouse.

The only thing I have done is uninstall VBET completely, not just disable in vB admincp, as this still leaves the product installed due to all the custom file edits.



And here is Google webmaster tools reports for user page speed (data is delayed, still dropping) and crawler page speed, the results are dramatic. We're talking a up to a 10th of what it was, so 10 seconds load times down to 2! 700ms page crawl times down to 75ms.





So all you people like me whom like extra traffic, make sure you getting that and not trading foreign language traffic and upsetting off all your native speakers in the process with bad load times and deformed pages, broken links and also annoying Google and getting less native traffic than before installing. Seriously, I cannot emphasize how much this mod hurts your site.

Take note VBET, sort you code out you are doing nothing but harming vBulletin users and making money from it!

And now answer from vBET owner: The guy which made this thread - Dave Hybrid is lying. He refused vBET support. He claims that he got 10 seconds page loading, but when we him asked to give at least one link to such page he refused.

The guy - Dave Hybrid - is cheater ant thief (it is true - I have proofs for that - see below). He was making other translation mod and I (Michał Podbielski) was cooperating with him. For this cooperation all donations which came to the mod suppose to be mine. After he closed the mod it appears that he was stealing because he didn't gave me any donation which he got for the mod. He is angry, because I made my own mod and after this he tried to reopen his own, what was total failure for him. That is how I became competition for him and why he is angry and writes lies. He was also cheating people on vbulletin.org that he was author of the mod, but he wasn't - he has no idea about programming.

What he is doing now is simply hate campaign - just Google some of his text from this thread and you will see that he spammed this post everywhere he could. Hate campaign made by thief, cheater and layer, and as we see also spammer. Hate campaign made because he failed with his own translation mod. See here for proofs:
- Translation mod which Dave was making with me - you can see there that I?m writing true
- Translation mod which he started after I created my own mod - his total failure, but check what he wrote there about translation mod. I will quote it here in case he remove it immediately from vbulletin.org:

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Below is a graph showing visits from search engines to new generated translated pages ONLY over a 4 month period straight after MOD install.

Yes, that's right, 9000 EXTRA visits per day, and growing. Nearly 3/4 of a MILLION uniques EXTRA in total.

That is what he was writing about his crappy translation mod which is much worst than vBET. And this is the true about what vBSEO team wrote on their forum: seeing is believing - now you see that he is able to create any graph he wants and write anything just to get his goal. On my free version plugin page he even wrote that he would write anything just to get one more mod download (moderators of vbulletin.ogr forum removed this post). And now this layer is doing the same - just for other reason: he is writhing anything just to make vBET loose at least one customer.
For those who are seeking the truth - this is his original image he put for his mod. You can see filter hl= what was language parameter in his mod.

His words and graphs are worth nothing. By the way - in my mod thread he was writing that he was laying before also to scare my users. He wrote first that it is not true that translation are good, and when we quoted him, then he wrote that he was lying on his mod page - really great way - Dave just wrote that he was layer before, to make people believe him now?

vBSEO team on their forum gladly puts link to this thread copy everywhere they can (as I wrote Dave spammed everywhere ? on vBSEO forum also) without care is it true or not and easily they forget that they argue with Dave about his translation mod (please see here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=686 and here: http://www.vbseo.com/f4/support-mult...nguages-35168/)... Why?... Because it is convenient to vBSEO that someone is against vBET, even when they can check themselves that the author is not reliable they thanks him for this note ("Thanks again for taking the time of posting this, we really appreciate it.").
This is vBSEO copy of this thread: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/take-note-al...ate-mod-47071/ Honestly I doubt is it really free thread and my opinion from the other side will stay there. Hope this is real discussion on vBSEO forum and I have right to defend against obvious scam. Great that Dave spammed this thread in many places - I will have the chance to defend even if vBSEO removes this post. So I?m doing it also here. If anyone is curious does my answer (same as here) was removed by vBSEO team, he can check himself ? here is link to my answer on vBSEO forum: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/take-note-al...tml#post313234

And here some additional opinions from vBSEO forum:
http://www.vbseo.com/f2/vbseo-vbet-g...58/#post303478

Originally Posted by gotlinks

I have yet to even get it to work to even make that decision. People sometimes post out of anger, or whatever is on their mind at the time. I have read the link that you have
posted, and since I do not know the full background or story, then I can not say for sure,
his post was back in 2010, was he using the free version or the paid version? Did he
discuss his problems with vbet to resolve his issue, or did he just post his issue to make
them look bad? or maybe vbet did fix this issue, and he posted this anyway... as if he had
went to vbet with this, then they could have fixed any issues, it does not sound like vbet
from what I have been reading to ignore their problems. It so happens at this point that
I have read more good then bad...I do not think their free version is all that great, but it
does sound like their paid version is has really been improved since last year. VBSEO is no
different i guess, you will find 20 people that will say it is great, then you will run across 2
that say it sucks...but since I have not gotten it to work yet, then I can not
really make that determination for myself...

I also find this funny. I used a backlink service a few days ago...well after I got my report,
well, they sucked, and I told them this, they gave me a refund, and even after they gave
me a refund, I still made a post on how bad their service was, so even though they
may improve their service at this point, it will not really matter if someone sees my comments.

Do we really know the entire story or is this just another one sided story?
we always here the one sided story, what is vBets response on this? or
does anyone care, and we take the word of the poster as gold?

Another:
http://www.vbseo.com/f2/huge-increas...t-vbseo-43343/ (he wrote good things about vBET, so vBSEO team closed this thread to cut discussion...):

Huge increase in traffic from vBet (with vbSEO)
I'll admit I was skeptical at first a couple months of the vBet plugin. I kind of just held back and waited for awhile to see & hear results from other legitimate members on their forums and even vbulletin.org.

Also, i'm not one of those guys that just jump into things out of excitement either... I analyzed the plugin and waited for months to hear other peoples stories / opinions. And see their results as well.

I finally went for it about a week ago. (paid version) And already , just under a week i'm already getting a ton of traffic from the /de/ , /fr/ , /ru/ , languages...and it seems to be increasing by the day into more languages.

I'm not going to post the link here as i'm not sure of vbSEO's stance on the plugin, but you can google vBet to see what I mean.

The 'good stories' section of their forums keeps showing more and more good stories by the day it seems. He's even hiring more people now because of the popularity of the plugin.

I think it would be great if vbSEO & vBet work together because the results are definitely there.

And i'm a paid & proud member of both plugins / services.

I've got no connection to either companies. Just think its a great plugin along with vbSEO. Infact, I think people would be dumb to not have vbSEO installed as well.

Another:
http://www.vbseo.com/f2/take-note-al...tml#post298733

Originally Posted by tavenger5

I ran some numbers for last year and because of VBET non-english speaking traffic was up 67% from last year, while overall hits were up 19%.

Is the extra server load worth it to me? yes. Did I expect server load to go up when duplicating my content 12 times? (I didn't enable all 52 languages) yes. Was there a negative impact on traffic to regular pages? No, it's gone up as well.

So to each their own. The mod has proven to be useful for me.

And much more here:
http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...-good-stories/

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

No more updates for version 3.8?

There will be We will wait little to check does any issues appears with changed functionality and then add it into 3.x version

[NLP-er]

For all our users. Please to not believe vBSEO team. They are hypocrites and working against vBET just for rule. They use their forum for campaign against vBET with lies. To those who didn’t read – you can check first this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1347

The same scam Dave Hybrid wrote on vBSEO forum (http://www.vbseo.com/f2/take-note-al...ate-mod-47071/) on 15th December 2010 year. And vBSEO team use those lies as their propaganda against vBET - in every post they wrote to people to not use vBET they put link to this fake thread. And when I replied today (same reply as I gave you here in first link - you can check does it still exist on vBSEO forum: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/take-note-al...tml#post313234). So when I replied today they immediately closed thread responding:

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Please take up any issues elsewhere as this is not the place for it. vbseo.com is for discussing vbseo ONLY. This is directed for all involved. Any issues with other mods should be addressed at the mod's site.

Thank you.

This is who are you dealing on vBSEO forum. This is their truth about vBET. For half year they used lies against vBET. They send thanks to Dave for this post:

Originally Posted by Andr?s Dur?n Hewitt

Thanks again for taking the time of posting this, we really appreciate it.

They send thanks him for his lies, they promote this thread in many other threads and the very moment when I as owner defend myself they closed thread telling that vbseo.com is for discussing vbseo ONLY
Don’t you wonder why this thread was open for half year if vbseo.com is for discussing vbseo ONLY?...
So that how it is - vBET is great for your SEO and your traffic and gives lot of advantages to your forum. vBSEO has no arguments against vBET, so first they use others lies and suddenly they remember that this is forum only about vBSEO. Great LOL. Also when someone is asking vBSEO team why they to not advise vBET they always repeat that it was already discussed and going do discussion from years.

The truth is: vBET is completely different product now with lot of new features. Especially in PRO version which even translates links. YEARS AGO we used all vBSEO team arguments to improve vBET and now it is great for your forum and your SEO

[adwade]

Above (free version) states:

Detailed features:
- Translation to 52 languages (53 in PRO version)
- Supported different translation providers: Google Translation API, Microsoft Translation API and easy to add more - PRO version only (here only Google supported)

Does that mean as of 1st December 2011 this (free) mod will cease to function any longer?

Also, in this post you state:

List of PRO features:
* Translates forum to 53 languages + ready for 5 more (free version only supports 52 languages)
* Supported different translation providers: Google Translation API, Microsoft Translation API and easy to add more (vBET4.x only - 3.x supports Google now - more will be in next (PRO) release)

What is the target date for the next vB 3x PRO release that will incorporate other API's besides just Google?