Bill Myers wrote on Oct 15^th, 2023 at 8:59pm:


I tried that too, unsuccessfully. I used to get along well with JonB. I was a moderator in the Yabbforum myself, but I almost only looked after the German members. I was always able to help quickly here. Suddenly the Yabb forum was closed. I never found out a reason. Dandello also holds back. But I think she doesn't know anymore either. Be that as it may, we cannot change it. Only Dandello can keep YaBB alive. She won't do it. What for? YaBB 2.7 is actually almost finished. I just think she did too much. In my opinion, incorporating mods from the zip file would not have been necessary. But it would be nice if she would adapt the mods, especially those from XTC, to 2.6.12. You can no longer upload YouTube films. Media doesn't work. I actually see a further development to 2.7 as unnecessary if these remaining bugs from 2.6.12 were to be fixed.

I removed some bugs from 2.6.12 myself and reported about them. YaBB runs very stable on my server. When I wanted to install it on Bluehost I found that I couldn't do the forum settings in the admin center. I have to check whether I did something wrong or whether I can only make the changes after the installation. That's also the reason why Normp's forum is currently running on my server. But I will find the error very quickly, even though I'm not a coder. But you can see that every server works differently. But it is also possible that Normp's server is Asbach-Uralt (that's what a cognac is called in Germany). But you don't have to understand that now. Debian and Perl are totally outdated, but an upgrade is not possible because it is a V server. You don't have root access. That can also be a reason. V servers are cheap, but nothing is being done about them.

Because of the arrogance within the YaBB forum, I can also report a lot. It's a good thing I never was and am not like that. Well, if I asked someone to restore a forum and the owner then messed with me, I would get pissed too. I also sometimes forgot about my good childhood home.

We probably don't need to talk about SQL anymore. The advantages and disadvantages are now known. Just a tip: never exceed the limit, this can end badly during a restoration.

I had this idea for the German-speaking area for a long time, but never implemented it. It would be worth a try. However, I can only restore one forum. When it comes to coding, I don't know what to do next. Okay, if some people from other parts of the world joined in, it would be okay.

Bill Myers wrote on Oct 16^th, 2023 at 6:23pm:


That's wrong, you have to use the branches, they are newer.

@ Bill Myers

I looked at your forum. Be careful, you have YaBB 2.6.11
This no longer works on Debian 10. I don't know about the other Linux versions.
You incorporated Google Translate above. Can I have the code? (ask kindly). I think it is written in HTML and incorporated into the template.

See my website
https://www.anti-scam.de

In the next few days I will make a mod that fixes some small bugs in 2.6.12. I have already reported about it here.

pyragony54 wrote on Oct 17^th, 2023 at 5:32pm:

Oops. I almost forgot to address your warning about YaBB 2.6.11 not working on Debian 10. I don't know offhand what Linux version I'm using on the server that has this test forum, but I'm pretty sure that it's one of the older versions.

In any case, I believe that this is also an issue with the YaBB 2.4 forum that I operate on the same server. I'm pretty sure that it's still working because an older version of Linux as well as an older version of Perl are being used.

Most of the domains that I operate are in the cloud on another server with another company that I've happily been using since 2016. I'm reluctant to move the remaining three domains to that newer server because I suspect that the two YaBB forums that I maintain will be inoperable on it (YaBB 2.4 & YaBB 2.6.11).

I'm not overly worried, though, as I have contingency plans in place to mitigate the loss of the active YaBB 2.4 forum that's been online since February 11, 2002. I'd hate to lose it, but sometimes changes in life are unavoidable, and we need to adapt.

@ Bill Myers

I found a better programmed code. Here the countries are not next to each other but among each other.
That doesn't broaden the forum.

<div id="google_translate_element"></div>

 <script type="text/javascript">
 function googleTranslateElementInit() {
   new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');
 }
 </script>

 <script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit
"></script>

 </body>
 </html> 

https://www.yabbtest.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

pyragony54 wrote on Oct 18^th, 2023 at 5:32pm:

I wonder what's going on. The code that I use works fine in both of the YaBB forums that I have on our server. You always seem to figure things out, though, so I'm looking forward to learning about what the issue was, or how it worked out for you.

In the meantime, maybe the best thing to do is to start from scratch, and then make modifications to suit your taste.

"How to Add Google Translate to Your Website"

By the way, the "dummies" reference is for me; not you.

Edited:

pyragony54 wrote on Oct 19^th, 2023 at 1:31pm:

I'm a bit confused.

The coding that I provided doesn't display flags; just the names of the different languages that Google has made available. It works well on both of the YaBB forums that are on my server. It should be noted that it also worked well on dozens of other YaBB forums when that same coding was utilized.

However, if you're referencing the coding that you provided, then I suppose the problem could be associated with Java.

Of, if you're referencing "Mod gTranslate for YaBB 2.6.11" that you previously linked, keep in mind that a guest named CJ3Apage posted the following:

Quote:

We did install it and test it. It does work great with the "google default" but a pain to figure out if we want to use "redirect" with just few flag selected without the dropdown menu....it give us a lot of errors.

Anyway we like it and hope it will get improve.

pyragony54 wrote on Oct 19^th, 2023 at 3:39pm:

Thank you for the clarification.

Edited:


It should be noted that when I looked at your forum, even though it was in maintenance mode, the "Google translate" box popped onto the screen. So whatever coding that you're using now seems to be working fine.