Forum Archive - "Automatic Translation" text

Hi, is there any option to show a text "This is an automated translation" only if the page is translated? This text could be in the header or footer, but I don't want it to be there if the visitor uses the default (untranslated) web site language.

Anybody? Maybe this is not used by anyone. My view is that the page viewer has to know that the translation is mechanical and not by a human, in order to acknowledge any "silly" mistakes.

Hi, You will need to use custom programming on your side to display a that text. You can find the current selected language code and display the text depending on it. For GTranslate Pro Joomla system plugin it is JSession::get('glang'); For the GTrnslate Pro General version it is $_GET['glang'] variable. If you are using Gtranslate Enterprise version you can find the current selected language code from X-GT-Lang request header. You can find it in _SERVER['HTTP_X_GT_LANG'] variable.

For free version?

The TEXT could only be in the default language and could be translated to the others languages automatically!

Hi, You can add class="notranslate" and GTranslate will not translate that text.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I'm using the 'on-the-fly' translation mode with FREE Gtranslate. How can I embed programmatically a line in every TRANSLATED page which would read "This is an AUTOMATED translation"? Of Course this line should not appear when the default language is used.

Hi, You need to modify doGTranslate javascript function for that. Thanks!

Thanks. I will have an line with display:none and when the doGTranslate js functiom fires it will change to display:block The problem is how to distinguish when the user switch back to the default site language in order to activate again the display:none style in this line.

Hi, You may try to check for googtrans cookie. Not sure about the cookie name. Thanks!

Nice tip!

The cookie name is as you said googtrans and the js code to check its existence is (thanks to stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5968196/check-cookie-if-cookie-exists): document.cookie.match(/^(.*;)?\s?googtrans=[^;]+(.*)?$/) So, checking the nullness of this expression inside the doGTranslate function, someone can toggle the display style of the "AUTOMATIC TRANSLATED PAGE". Thank you for your guidance.

Thanks for sharing!