Translating a site from another language

**thomasc** · 11 February, 2009, 04:52 AM

Hello,
This script is very good, I use it ever sicne I've found it on the digitalpoint forum thread.

I'd like to know what easiest steps should be taken in order to use this script from a site in another language?

Let's say, my site is in french, and I'd like the script to work for english and all other languages in much the same way as it does for english sites.

Cheers,

**Will.Spencer** · 11 February, 2009, 06:12 AM

I haven't done this, but it should be fairly simple to accomplish.

You would have to edit translate.php to replace "en" with "fr":

Before

Code:

//Define translation engines here
$engines = array(
        'g'     => array(               'trans_url'             => 'http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=en%7C$lang&u=$url',
                                                'timeout'               => 180,
                                                'max_redir'             => 3,
                                                'check_func'    => 'GoogleCheck',       //This function should determine if the translation was successful
                                                'fixup_func'    => 'GoogleFixup'
                                        ),
//TODO: Yahoo translation requires an IP hostname, should code a workaround for this
        'y'     => array(               'trans_url'             => 'http://72.30.186.56/babelfish/translate_url_content?lp=en_$lang&trurl=$url',
                                                'timeout'               => 180,
                                                'max_redir'             => 3,
                                                'check_func'    => 'YahooCheck',
                                                'fixup_func'    => 'YahooFixup'
                                        )

After

Code:

//Define translation engines here
$engines = array(
        'g'     => array(               'trans_url'             => 'http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=fr&langpair=fr%7C$lang&u=$url',
                                                'timeout'               => 180,
                                                'max_redir'             => 3,
                                                'check_func'    => 'GoogleCheck',       //This function should determine if the translation was successful
                                                'fixup_func'    => 'GoogleFixup'
                                        ),
//TODO: Yahoo translation requires an IP hostname, should code a workaround for this
        'y'     => array(               'trans_url'             => 'http://72.30.186.56/babelfish/translate_url_content?lp=fr_$lang&trurl=$url',
                                                'timeout'               => 180,
                                                'max_redir'             => 3,
                                                'check_func'    => 'YahooCheck',
                                                'fixup_func'    => 'YahooFixup'
                                        )

**thomasc** · 11 February, 2009, 08:21 AM

OK, thank you for your fast reply.
If everything is concentrated into this part of code, then yes it's easy, I thought maybe the english language as a base was hardcoded in other parts of the script.

Well of course the flags links need to be changed so that english simply becomes another language and the site's original language becomes the main one.