End-User Options - Language Driven Forums

With this engine, you have a full control over a Multi-Language forum. If you have a population of english, french, spanish and other languages, you may have a need for this if you have specific forums for each languages...

When you want to enforce the users to only see the forums they can post in, or the ones they can read in their own language, you can edit each of your forums to fit your needs

This is for the Admincp where you edit your forums.

Now you can give your users the ability to choose what kind of forum they can see. On registration or when they edit their Profile options, they have these choices:

Here is when the user is registering: (optional entry)

As an admin, you will continue to see all the forums, but you will see an indication of the language each forum is using, because the languageid for each modified forum will show in the forumlist...

A note coming from Jelsoft, regarding the possibility that a multiple licenses would be required if you use this addon...

Originally Posted by Ashley Busby, Jun 12th '08 12:05pm

This is one forum and it can be navigated from any area to any area.

I concur, only one license is required and I am of the opinion that the license agreement is not contravened.

Source: https://www.vbulletin.com/issue.php?...hcode=b44157f3

note: on jan. 2nd, 2010, a query_read was replaced by a query_first... to avoid inconsistancy with mysqli... simply re-import the product...

[vbenhancer]

thanks for the report... query_read is making problem with mysqli when not used properly... i had a code error, thanks, it is now corrected, you simply have to re-import the product.

[imedic]

Nice mod. If you click new messages it will display only messages from forums in your language (if you select to see only them) ?
Interesting mod to cope with multilanguage.

Selection of language forums should be in a more prominent position (like on each page or at least forum home) given the fact that you install this only if you have multilanguage users.
Or the en* and en should be links to control panel where you can change settings.

I see very useful this mode if you can exclude from New Messages search the forums not in your language.

[swsche]

It's a very nice and usefull script. But i have a little problem.

When i switch the language in the usercp and i go to the forumhome, logged in as administrator, i can see all forums (english and german). Only the mods and the useres are able to see the forums fit to the choosen language.

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by swsche

It's a very nice and usefull script. But i have a little problem.

When i switch the language in the usercp and i go to the forumhome, logged in as administrator, i can see all forums (english and german). Only the mods and the useres are able to see the forums fit to the choosen language.

This is not a problem, this is by purpose... as admin, you also have access to all passworded forums, all closed and locked forums... being an admin is to be in charge of everything... so things do not change...

My engine is not giving more filtering on usergroups, this is a per user setting. As admin, you see the " *en " indicator, to show if your forum is set properly...

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by imedic

I see very useful this mode if you can exclude from New Messages search the forums not in your language.

I'm all with you on that, i need to refine the search engine filtering... i know where to add it, but did not look at this since i coded the engine first (4 years ago)... if i have time, i'll code this option.

[Fraxter]

For the future of this modification would be an update to vb4 the best. Thanks for this addon.

regards Pander23

[Enlightning Man]

Are there any news on vb 4 support for this?

We'd be very interested!

Regards,
Christopher

[Enlightning Man]

For everyone who's interested: I got this extension working on vb 4.0.3

The HowTo.txt file in the zip tells you to modify functions_forumlist.php with this code:

PHP Code:

//not working:
if($forum['languagecode'] AND !($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['adminpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adminpermissions['cancontrolpanel'])) 
{
    if($forum['languagecode_forced'] AND ($forum['languagecode'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['languagecode'])) continue;
    if($vbulletin->userinfo['languagecode_forced'] AND ($forum['languagecode'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['languagecode'])) continue;
} 


instead of that code, simply use this snippet:

PHP Code:

//working solution:
if($forum['languagecode'] AND !($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['adminpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adminpermissions['cancontrolpanel']))
{
    if($forum['languagecode_forced'] AND ($forum['languagecode'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['lang_code'])) continue;
    if($vbulletin->userinfo['languagecode_forced'] AND ($forum['languagecode'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['lang_code'])) continue;
} 


So you simply have to exchange the userinfo['languagecode'] with userinfo['lang_code']...

A user who selects a different fourm interface language in the backend will afterwards see no forums which are forced to be displayed in a different language.

Up to now, this is the only problem that I have seen with this plugin.

[Nephalim]

where can you get spanish or german language?i see only french

thank you

[Enlightning Man]

Well I see only german and english.
I guess it depends on what you have installed as front end language packs in your system.