Back in June, Google announced that the Google Translate API will be shut down[1], although they later announced that there will likely be a paid version available eventually. Will this affect the granslate module or does it function in such a way to continue working after the API is shut down?

I don't see anything mentioned about this in the issue queue or the project page, but another popular translation module[2] has a good thread about this same topic in its queue[3].

[1] http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-a...
[2] http://drupal.org/project/i18n_auto
[3] http://drupal.org/node/1215426

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doomed’s picture

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented

I noticed recently this module stopped working on one of my sites.
The flags are there but clicking them just don't do anything. Shame.

arianek’s picture

arianek CreditAttribution: arianek commented

Try swapping in the code snippet from http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

doomed’s picture

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented

Arianek,
that's not the same.

This module offered flag icons in different sizes (16, 32 and 64px), the Google widget dont offer any flags at all.

Plus the Google widget comes up with a toolbar (on top of the page) which is not very professional.

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arianek CreditAttribution: arianek commented

You don't have to do it the way that has the big toolbar - eg. http://jointlearningnetwork.org/ for a different implementation. But yes, you do obviously lose the ability to put flag icons for specific languages (unless there's a way around that, that I'm not aware of).

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Pls CreditAttribution: Pls commented

For anyone who is still unsure whether this module will work, I can report that it's not working. Basically, this module uses google translate API v1 and now google translate only provides v2 (which is paid). What works and not working: Google default - works, On the fly - not working, Redirect - works. What I hoped to acomplish using this module, that google translate popups would not show up when user is viewing translated content. I think that is On the fly method what I'm talking about. Can't find any alternative to this module. Maby you found another similar module which works, if so please share your findings!

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edo888 CreditAttribution: edo888 commented

It is a wrong statement.

GTranslate still works and it is affected only partially.

Please download and use GTranslate from our website: http://gtranslate.net

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dunlop CreditAttribution: dunlop commented

I would like to see this information about the move of the code to gtranslate.net posted directly to the project page rather than being buried in an issue. As I see it versions 6.x-1.7 or 7.x-1.7 on d.o are now obsolete.

I would also like to note that drupal update will not notify site admins of the gtranslate.net 1.8 or later versions unless they are updated to d.o. also; and that is a regression.

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enrique.delgado CreditAttribution: enrique.delgado commented

Hmm, weird. I aslo noticed that 7.x-1.7 is not working (Google complains that it's using V1 of the Google Translation API rather than V2). I had to download 1.8 from http://joomla-gtranslate.googlecode.com/files/dp_gtranslate-7.x-1.8.zip.

After I did that, I noticed that the "On Fly" option is no longer available, which means that flags do not work either. What's going on? :-/

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edo888 CreditAttribution: edo888 commented

Hi,

You can checkout the latest version from Git repository. Currently there are problems on drupal.org and I cannot release the latest version.

You can find more info at: https://drupal.org/project/gtranslate/git-instructions

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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

I am closing this issue, since Drupal 6 isn't supported anymore.