Free on the fly site translation script

[Interlogic]

I know it says Buy, Sell or Trade but this is actually a freebie.

I've just stuck a copy of my on the fly translation script which I adapted from the simple thoughts wordpress plugin into a zip file which you can get here:

http://www.articlecodex.com/translate.zip

I'm afraid to get it working on your site you need to edit all the index.php files individually to change:
$MySiteURL = "http://www.articlecodex.com";
to your own URL.

Also you'll need to create an "en" folder and set it up with a page that simply redirects to your homepage.

Then all you should need to do is upload the entire translate folder to the root of your site and point your browser at http://www.yourdomain.com/translate/fr/?/ to see a french translation of your site.

It does this via the google translate site on the fly and you can see it working here: http://www.articlecodex.com/

Let me know if you have any problems..

Edit - I don't know how it will handle URL's with large query strings to be honest. I have played around with this a bit but as my site is designed to not use more than a few basic querystrings I haven't played with this much.. There is also a line in the code of every page to convert my charset which you may or may not need to adjust.

Mike

[ly2]

wow, amazing!

[Sunny]

Really amazing.

Thanks Interlogic

[RectangleMan]

Rep Added...that's great of you to share this code. It looks very nice and easy to implement.

[Interlogic]

Glad you like it!

[Interlogic]

I got a Grey Reputation point for posting this.. Is that a Neg Rep?!

[Dejavu]

I think that is someone who is himself red thats trying to rep you.

[Interlogic]

Ahhhh Like "Rep Light"?

[NewBeing]

Nice one Interlogic, cool code and its very generous of you to share, thanks

[Interlogic]

Well I've gotten lots of info and advice on here so it's nice for me to be able to give something back

[Interlogic]

Just want to add this script requires cURL to be enabled.

To check your current setup create a test php page with <?php phpinfo(); ?> this in the body.

then do a search for curl on the page that is generated and you should see a section with info along these lines:

cURL support enabled
cURL Information libcurl/7.12.3 OpenSSL/0.9.6b zlib/1.2.1

If you don't have cURL installed then this script won't work for you I'm afraid..

[keral82]

very good offer

[kaptain]

Cool little script....

Question: Are any of the translated pages being indexed? Ok... i found some in Yahoo and MSN, but seems like Google is being slow.

Like i said: nice and Thanks

[NewBeing]

Question: Are any of the translated pages being indexed? Ok... i found some in Yahoo and MSN, but seems like Google is being slow.

If this is the case, in the eyes of the search engines, does this mean that my site has got 8 times as big since adding the translation script?

[Interlogic]

Originally Posted by kaptain

Cool little script....

Question: Are any of the translated pages being indexed? Ok... i found some in Yahoo and MSN, but seems like Google is being slow.

Like i said: nice and Thanks

Glad you like it.

I'm not sure what's going to happen indexing wise.. I am hoping that the search engines will index the pages but so far they all seem to have been quite slow about indexing them but I have seen results in MSN and Yahoo for the translated pages and google has only just done it's first deep crawl of the site so I am hopefull..

kaptain - yes I am hopefull that it will basically index all the pages as new content or at least give them more weight than standard duplicate pages.. Won't know till I see what sort of indexing if any is done..

Mike

[Interlogic]

Ohhhh just did a quick google search and saw that ly2.com which is using the script has gotten some of their french pages indexed anyway..

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&sa...ate%2Ffr&meta=

[Interlogic]

Quick Update..

I've been keeping and eye on my sites indexed pages in google and there are definitely some translated pages being indexed:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...start=400&sa=N

[Wally]

Also you'll need to create an "en" folder and set it up with a page that simply redirects to your homepage.

You mean I have to create a new folder called "en" not "de"? my language is de in germany, my sites are german?
and in this Folder I have to set a page. What page? ooo.html?? is html ok?
And what exactly must I write in this page, what Html Code?

I think that is all to difficult for me.

Also the Translation ist not soooo very good, but this is normal. There is no good translation Programm, is not existing a really good Program or translation. Maybe in the future.

[Interlogic]

hehe, afraid I've only set the script up to translate from English to german, spanish, italian etc. etc. etc.

[Wally]

oh ok so I can save my nerves to put a script up