UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Release- Translate this page hack

In action:

Scroll to the bottom of the thread:
Below the hopto box you will see the translation form
http://cpfc.org/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002700.html

Summary:

Allows UBB pages to be translated in different languages on the fly:

In UBB Libary2.pl find
Directly after this add

Thanks Dave#,

You are the man. Since I have an international business, this translator.go.com is the coolest thing I have seen yet for my website.

Thank you, thank you, thank you...



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Micah Kritzman

Alright Dave! Superb hack.

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

i just tried that on my ubb and i dont see it for some reason

nevermind it works
yay. very cool.

Does it support other languages?

Nope... just the 5.

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

Too bad it doesn't work for Dutch...I think it's great!

I've been using a hidden version of that on my site (www.planetunreal.com/modcentral) for a couple of months. I have it using LWP to get the translated page (just the news), as that way I can still keep the nav bar and headers of my page in English. The next version of this hack should be to translate particular posts from language to language.
I don't have international boards, so this is no use to me. However, it may be critical if a thread turns bi-lingual. An easy way to do it would be to copy the Edit sub to "Translate" and take out the text areas, then add the form on that page. Pretty it up and you should be all set.


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Chris «Stallion» Lambert
clambert@gamespy.com
ModCentral / PlanetUnreal

Great hack Dave!

Could this be incorporated to be used not only in the threads, but for the forum summaries and main forum page?

I love it so far, but if you could add those 2 extra things, it would be outrageous!

It works in the forum summary but you have to go to a thread then choose the language. Then you can go to those places with that language.

Hi- Glad you all like:

There are only the languages specified because that is all go com provide: Go com is cool because they let you translate on the fly unlike babelfish which has a frustrating middle screen-Go does not restrict by reffere! however I think it offers dutch which may be of use to our dutch friends http://babelfish.altavista.com

More hacks to come- watch out

This hack will work if you place that exact code in Ultimate.cgi and forumdisplay.cgi

Just tried that Dave, no go. It takes you to the translate site with no translation.

I fixed Ultimate.cgi.

This:

value="$NonCGIURL/$ForumIs/HTML/$ThreadNumber.html" >

Should read:

value="$CGIURL/Ultimate.cgi" >

I have NO clues as to fix forumdisplay.cgi

If Dave says it works, i am sure it does. The only bad thing about this is that it translates HTMl as well

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

Dave:

Great hack as usual. The only problem that I had with this is that when I leave the page that has been translated to go to another page I find that the cookie is screwed up. Then when I reset the preferences part of it is in English and part in the last language that I chose as well as the rest of the board.

I really like this hack. Any ideas what could be going on?

Parker

Atom:
I think using enviromental variables might work- let me check

Peter:

This hack should not effect your cookies - sorry I can't help more

Still can't figure how to get it to work in forumdispaly.cgi. any luck yet?

too bad dutch is not supported (nope neither does http://babelfish.altavista.com/)

We dutchmen just don't count

To make this work in forumdisplay.cgi,


Change:




To:



Thanks for the great hack Dave!

The translator hack is wonderful - but: please help a beginner - *where* do you stick the hack in ultimate.cgi and forumdisplay.cgi - please??

In V5.45c, can anyone point me to the place in "forumdisplay.cgi" where I can find the change that "NBAustin" noted above? I can't seem to find the exact place in this new version.

Thanks...

Dave,
I am using V5.45c and I followed your directions at the beginning of this therad and I get nothing.

I would welcome any advive you can give as I am a serious Newbie.

BTW Youe have a great looking site