Free Thread Translator

Well someone requested this as a hack, but it ended up being a template modification so it's here.

Anyway, what this does is adding a drop down menu with a list of languages, and you just select one and the thread will be translates.

The install this, add the following HTML code:

	<td align="center"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td><smallfont><b>Translate Thread:</b><br>
	<select name="lang" onchange="window.location=('http://fets3.freetranslation.com:5081/?Url=path_to_forums%2Fshowthread.php%3Fs%3D%26threadid%3D$threadid&Sequence=core&Language='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
		<option value="-1" selected>Please select direction:</option>
		<option value="English/Spanish">English to Spanish</option>
		<option value="English/French">English to French</option>
		<option value="English/German">English to German</option>
		<option value="English/Italian">English to Italian</option>
		<option value="English/Norwegian">English to Norwegian</option>
		<option value="English/Portuguese">English to Portuguese</option>
		<option value="Spanish/English">Spanish to English</option>
		<option value="French/English">French to English</option>
		<option value="German/English">German to English</option>
		<option value="Italian/English">Italian to English</option>
		<option value="Portuguese/English">Portuguese to English</option>
	</select></smallfont></td></tr></table></td>

right before this:

	<td align="center">$adminoptions</td>

in your showthread template.

You only need to change the red part, like this. If the forum is at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum you need to replace the red part with "www.vbulletin.com%2Fforum" (you drop the http:// and change / into %2F as you can see!).

That's it.

[GrphicImprssion]

Originally posted by kermit
tried that.. but still the same.

ditto, no dice. any other suggestions by any chance?

[Lucky]

Originally posted by GrphicImprssion


ditto, no dice. any other suggestions by any chance?

Same here.
Still does not work.
Any more ideas?

[okrogius]

Neat! Thanks.

[Brian Cruz]

Any chance the "go" button could be incorporated into this? I know it would serve little purpose, since making a selection automatically changes the page, but it looks weird with all the other drop-down menus having one and this not.

[Admin]

Originally posted by Codename49
Modify whats after the red in that line from
%2Fshowthread.php%3Fs%3D%26threadid%3D$threadid&Se quence=core&Language='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">

to
%2Fshowthread.php%3Fs%3D$session[sessionhash]%26threadid%3D$threadid&Sequence=core&Language='+t his.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">

That won't work, vBulletin isn't that stupid.

You can try adding "&loginusername=test&loginpassword=test", and then create a user named 'test' with a password 'test'. It might work, not sure though.

Brian Cruze, you can just stick $gobutton in there to show the go button... not that it'll work or anything.

[Lucky]

You can try adding "&loginusername=test&loginpassword=test", and then create a user named 'test' with a password 'test'. It might work, not sure though.

No go.

Still don't work.

[Lucky]

On another note I tried using the password test as encrypted but still a no go.

Any other ideas buddy

[itstd]

Any more thoughts on this (returning to sign on)?

[GrphicImprssion]

Geee, Sorry for the "getting it started", thought this may have been something that was fixed already that i might have missed. It would be an incredible resource to have but, if it is not feasable than i will just put a link to a translation board that people can coppy and past to. Hope someone figures out a "key" for this, but until then,....Have a nice day leased:

[jamesdasher]

Here is another option for this, don't know if it will fix people's problems, but it is available.

Warning: This option is not as 'integrated' as FireFly's (because of the company that does the translation)
Warning: One many of the 'character languages' (like Chinese, Korean, etc.) the translation takes quite some time, but it is working, it is just a tedious process because of the language.
Warning: You can't translate the same page twice in a row (in the Babelfish frames). The frames generated by babelfish kills it.
Warning: You cannot access a page in your site once translated if that page has a user base to it (the user cp, etc.) you can access pages such as calendar which is not dependent on the user being logged in.

Okay, this option uses AltaVista's translation service (Babelfish) so hopefully it is a bit more stable as well.

Insert the following:

<td align="center"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td>
<form action="http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="doit" value="done">
<input type="hidden" name="tt" value="url">
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://www.teenssucceed.com/showthread.php?threadid=$threadid">
<smallfont><b>Translate Thread:</b></smallfont><br>
<select name="lp">
<option value="en_zh" >English to Chinese</option>
<option value="en_fr" >English to French</option>
<option value="en_de" >English to German</option>
<option value="en_it" >English to Italian</option>
<option value="en_ja" >English to Japanese</option>
<option value="en_ko" >English to Korean</option>
<option value="en_pt" >English to Portuguese</option>
<option value="en_es" SELECTED>English to Spanish</option>
<option value="zh_en" >Chinese to English</option>
<option value="fr_en" >French to English</option>
<option value="fr_de" >French to German</option>
<option value="de_en" >German to English</option>
<option value="de_fr" >German to French</option>
<option value="it_en" >Italian to English</option>
<option value="ja_en" >Japanese to English</option>
<option value="ko_en" >Korean to English</option>
<option value="pt_en" >Portuguese to English</option>
<option value="ru_en" >Russian to English</option>
<option value="es_en" >Spanish to English</option>
</select>
$gobutton
</form>
</td></tr></table></td>

goes after

<td>$forumjump</td>

good luck

James