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.

[Brian Cruz]

Originally posted by jamesdasher
if for some reason the babelfish script is messing up your layout a lot (it was for me quite a bit)...you can try the following which is a script for http://translation.lycos.com.

Thanks James, my users like this Lycos translation much more than freetranslations.com. And you got to go button in there too.

Any chance it could work immediately on selection, and also by clicking on the go button? The immediate change never works for Netscape users, and IE users never expect to use the go button anymore.

[jamesdasher]

Hi, Brian, don't know probably is the 'automatic' change is just javascript, I will try to look into it...

[jamesdasher]

Hi! Jawelin,

Well, Jawelin, I have finished the hack part like you requested a few posts ago, I have to put it all together than I will release it.

James

[jamesdasher]

Brian I tried to make it work without clicking but it didn't because of the way lycos sets it up, sorry

(also I made some cosmetic changes to the hack I mentioned so I recommend using the new layout it will have when I release it.)

James

[Lucky]

Sounds good!

I'll be waiting!

[Jawelin]

Originally posted by jamesdasher
Hi! Jawelin,

Well, Jawelin, I have finished the hack part like you requested a few posts ago, I have to put it all together than I will release it.
James

BOUNCE!
Thanks a lot.
Well, std.by....

[jamesdasher]

my first hack so it may take me a bit just to figure out how to package it best, it should be out soon though.

James

[Stretchr]

I've read thru this thread again and I'm still not clear whether anyone has resolved the private forum issue? Can anyone clarify this as I'd love to have a translation option but I have FireFly's hack and that doesn't work for private forums. Thanks!

[Lucky]

I have been waiting as well for this hack to be resolved.
As of yet, no there is still an issue with this.
I hope someone can resolve it soon or I will have to uninstall this puppy.

[Tim Wheatley]

If this helps anyone, this is what I put on mine (took a little searching...)

I doubt it's even correct HTML, but it works.

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td>
    <font face="Verdana,Arial" size="1">
    Translate thread:</font><br>
<FORM name=texur action=http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran 
                              method=post>
                              <P><FONT size=2><STRONG>  
                              <input onblur=dudeurl() type="hidden" name="url" value="http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?threadid=$threadid">
                              &nbsp;<BR><SELECT name=from style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 8pt" size="1"> <OPTION value=eng 
                                selected>English<OPTION value=spa>Spanish<OPTION 
                                value=fre>French<OPTION value=ger>German<OPTION 
                                value=ita>Italian<OPTION 
                                value=poe>Portuguese<OPTION value=pob>Brazilian
                                Portuguese<OPTION value=cro>Croatian (CP 1250)<OPTION value=che>Czech
                                (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=dan>Danish<OPTION value=dut>Dutch<OPTION 
                                value=spe>European Spanish<OPTION 
                                value=fin>Finnish<OPTION value=grk>Greek<OPTION 
                                value=hun>Hungarian (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=ice>Icelandic<OPTION value=jpn>Japanese
                                (Shift JIS)<OPTION value=spl>Latin American
                                Spanish<OPTION value=nor>Norwegian<OPTION 
                                value=pol>Polish (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=rus>Russian (CP 1251)<OPTION 
                                value=sel>Serbian (Latin)<OPTION 
                                value=slo>Slovenian (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=swe>Swedish<OPTION 
                              value=wel>Welsh</OPTION></SELECT> <BR><SELECT name=to style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 8pt" size="1"> <OPTION 
                                value=spa selected>Spanish<OPTION 
                                value=eng>English<OPTION value=fre>French<OPTION 
                                value=ger>German<OPTION value=ita>Italian<OPTION 
                                value=poe>Portuguese<OPTION value=pob>Brazilian 
                                Portuguese<OPTION value=cro>Croatian (CP 
                                1250)<OPTION value=che>Czech (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=dan>Danish<OPTION value=dut>Dutch<OPTION 
                                value=spe>European Spanish<OPTION 
                                value=fin>Finnish<OPTION value=grk>Greek<OPTION 
                                value=hun>Hungarian (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=ice>Icelandic<OPTION value=jpn>Japanese 
                                (Shift JIS)<OPTION value=spl>Latin American 
                                Spanish<OPTION value=nor>Norwegian<OPTION 
                                value=pol>Polish (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=rus>Russian (CP 1251)<OPTION 
                                value=sel>Serbian (Latin)<OPTION 
                                value=slo>Slovenian (CP 1250)<OPTION 
                                value=swe>Swedish<OPTION 
                              value=wel>Welsh</OPTION></SELECT><INPUT type=submit value=Go style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 8pt"></STRONG><INPUT type=hidden value=yes name=topframe>  
                          </FONT></P></FORM>
</td></tr>
</table>