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Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:39 am

Hi all,
I am implementing a translation feature into a site. Index.php will include a form so that the visitor can click for an instant translation of the page. Has anyone actually done this?  I plan to use worldlingo as the machine translation tool.

I have this working with a static page, but need to code it so that each page's url is pulled into the form.  Does anyone know the variable for page urls?
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:18 am

UPDATE:

I was sure there had to be a better way to call urls without having to do:

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<?php echo 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
It seems there is not.

I have now added a module for machine translations to my localsite and it works very well. I will report back when the site goes live so anyone who is interested can see it in action.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by infograf768 » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:01 am

I am very interested personaly, Elpie.

If you need a tester, I volunteer.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:30 pm

Unfortunately right now I'm not a programmer, and cannot help you on it, but I'm really too interested to understand better what you mean  :)

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:33 am

I have completed it and will soon have it up live on a site.  As soon as I have finished the site I will write out the step by step details of what I have done and include the code in case anyone else want to use it.

I will post the url here as soon as the site goes live so you can check it out for yourself.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:44 am

Waiting your indications and suggestments ... Many Thanks

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by teamsand » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:25 pm

id like to check this out

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:50 am

I have just a few tweaks to do on the site to have it all behaving properly with Internet Explorer and then it will be launched.
Hopefully, I will have it up in the next day or two.  I will come back here and let you know.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by eddyyanto » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:57 am

I will have it up in the next day or two
Great, and maybe you can consider to make it as a module or a package.
Or just share your code ( if you oblige ) so that everyone here can contribute to what you've invented.

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:24 pm

I'm ready to test it  :P

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by eddyyanto » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:04 pm

can you show us your link ?  :D

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Comenius » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:51 pm

I'd be interested as well!  :D
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:43 pm

Hey Elpie,

... WHat's happen  ???

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:42 pm

Sorry to keep everyone waiting. I have had some problems with the site I am putting this up on that have delayed me. I will get onto this within the next few days. Thanks for your patience.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by ivo.apostolov » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:19 am

Just a simple question?

what languages will be supported?

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:44 am

ivo.apostolov wrote: Just a simple question?

what languages will be supported?
Yes, what are languages supported  ???

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by Elpie » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:57 pm

Sorry I forgot to update this thread :(
The extension I intended to publish worked like a charm UNTIL the worldlingo site decided to block access to anyone that does not subscribe.
None of the other computer translation tools are very good and none of them offer the ability to have the translated site indexed by search engines, so I stopped work on it for now.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by infograf768 » Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:05 pm

Thanks, Elpie, for the follow-up.
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by teamsand » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:23 pm

ya thanks, im using the google translator in the meantime, it far from perfect and downright funny sometimes but it at the least allows some understanding .

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by elkuku » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:45 pm

ok i'm using the Fish in the meantime...

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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by infograf768 » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:07 am

The fish is NOT a translating tool, but a multilingual tool, which is quite different.  ;)
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by elkuku » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:51 am

the old fashioned way... I have not seen a translating tool that works aceptable, so i think we have to do it "by hand" with a multilingual tool until - yeah i thought that elpie would show us a new way...

EDIT: deleted outdated stuff...
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Re: Adding translation tools to a site

Post by joomleb » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:49 pm

Elpie wrote: Sorry I forgot to update this thread :(
The extension I intended to publish worked like a charm UNTIL the worldlingo site decided to block access to anyone that does not subscribe.
None of the other computer translation tools are very good and none of them offer the ability to have the translated site indexed by search engines, so I stopped work on it for now.
Are you sure ?
http://www1.worldlingo.com/SG57TOc3OQEL ... /translate

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