https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:34:47 +0000 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:36:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=21233 https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ https://forums.webwiz.net/thinking-of-using-license-and-language-questions_topic21233_post113710.html#113710 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 21233
Posted: 06 September 2006 at 11:36am

First as to your licensing questions you should use the Contact Us section of the site to contact us directly as licensing questions of this nature can not be answered on a public forum.

As to your question on language translation, to translate the forum to another language edit the files in the language_files folder using notepad. If you look in the language file forum on this site you may find someone has already translated the files for you and have posted links to their translation.

For your question on displaying posts etc. in your site you should checkout the mods forum to see if someone has written a mod to do what you require.

The active users (members online) is not 100% accurate as HTTP is a stateless protocol meaning that as soon as the page has finished downloading the connection to the server is dropped, at which point it's impossible to tell if the user is just reading a page or has actually left the site completely. Instead the active users list traces users by IP address and places them into the active users array, this entry in the active users array is dropped 20 minutes after the last activity. I may look into updating this in future to use AJAX to ping the server every so many seconds or minutes which would make it more accurate, but performance and bandwidth issues will need to be looked into before implementing such a feature.
]]> Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:36:09 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/thinking-of-using-license-and-language-questions_topic21233_post113710.html#113710 https://forums.webwiz.net/thinking-of-using-license-and-language-questions_topic21233_post113704.html#113704 Author: kitster
Subject: 21233
Posted: 06 September 2006 at 10:49am

Hi there,

I have a pretty demanding client with some fairly interesting expectations, so bear with me...

There are four sites for this client, all in different languages, allwith different domains (abc.com, abc.pl, abc.pt, abc.fr).  I want allof these sites to be able to share the same database.  The user shouldhave the option of seeing just forum activity for their language (ordomain whichever is easiest to set up) or for all languages.  Each ofthese sites will share groups, but the content is filtered by threadlanguage.  So, for example, a user registers in Poland andautomatically assigned a language id of polish.  They go to the forumsand see three groups with x threads in each group.  They go to theirprofile and change a custom field which changes their default viewinglanguage to "All", go back to the forum home page and see three groupswith x+y threads, in mulitple languages.  Does this make sense?

Also, the groups that will be set up, can we have different names foreach group based upon their natural language?  So, someone from the UKsees "Videos, Photos, News", while someone from Poland sees "Klipy,Foty, Niusy".  The content could be language filtered or all, asspecified above.

I guess now is also an opportune momentto ask if you have translations for Polish, French and Potuguese.  Thismay be expanded even further in the future, so perhaps a fulltranslation list would be smarter, with a description of how we goabout translating it.  If we come up with a language which you haven'tgot a language file for, can we do our own?

On a slightlydifferent track, we intend to bring forum content into each site tosome extent (latest postings, comments on an article looking like astandard list of comments, but actually being a forum post).  Is thispossible, and how easy?  I guess what I'm asking is do you supplyscripts (which can be understood and modified) for this type of thing. Its not going to be much fun if I have to figure out the database tableand data structure to be able to do these bits and pieces.

With the "member online" facility, how exactly are you able todetermine if a user is online?  If its session based (IIS, db,whatever), don't you have the issue of the user closing their browserand the system being unaware they've gone until their session timesout?  Its not actually "live", is it?  If it is, can we use itelsewhere in the sites?

And finally, licenses.  We would probably get the multi-sitedeveloper license to remove the copywrite and ads.  Does this giveus the flexibility to run unlimited versions of the forum without adsand the link?  Or is there a per/site, per/server license that Ihaven't found?

Hope this all makes sense.  If its daunting for you, guess how my brain feels?!

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