"Automatic Translation" text

[gtaranti]

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.

[gtaranti]

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.

[Yana]

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.

[gtaranti]

For free version?

[gtaranti]

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

[Yana]

Hi,

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

[gtaranti]

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.

[Edvard]

Hi,

You need to modify doGTranslate javascript function for that.

Thanks!

[gtaranti]

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.

[Edvard]

Hi,

You may try to check for googtrans cookie. Not sure about the cookie name.

Thanks!

[gtaranti]

Nice tip!

[gtaranti]

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):

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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.

[Edvard]

Thanks for sharing!