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Content translation filter (superseded)
Filters ::: filter_fulltranslate
Maintained by 
Moodle HQ
The Content translation filter provided a way to quickly translate the content of Moodle courses into different languages. Please now use the new plugin as it maintains translations when the original language content is updated and has many other improvements, but works largely the same way than this plugin did! it's coming soon to the Moodle plugins database, but available now on github: https://github.com/andrewhancox/moodle-filter_translations
Latest release:
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Please use the new, improved plugin instead.
The filter should be placed as the first filter in the filter stack.
The filter parses and processes every piece of content including HTML texts and heading.For each content item:
- If the current language is English, then the original text is returned untouched.
- Else hash the full original text as the HASHKEY to look into the translation database table.
- If the key is found, then look for a translation in the current language.
- If the translation exists, then return the translation text
- Else get a translation using Google Translate API and store the result in the table, then return it.
- If the translation exists, then return the translation text
- Else the key was not found (it’s a new string), so create a new entry in the table, then get an automatic translation using a translate API, and store the result in the table, then return it.
The (undoubtedly imperfect) Google translations can be cleaned up using the Content translation manager tool.
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Contributors
Moodle HQ (Lead maintainer)
Farhan Karmali: Author of the initial version
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I have little experience with freetranslate, but it seems to work well enough for some languages. There are some mistakes, but for example did you guess that this text was automatically translated from French to english?
I made the following observations while testing the plugin.
1. The plugin translates does not translate the headings of Lesson activity. But it translates the text in the content in the lesson activity.
2. It repeats the text twice in the translation language. For Eg: When the Original text in English (en) is translated to Tamil (Ta), The page displays the translated text twice.
3. But when the text is translated displays content only once in the translated language. It is not consistent.
Regards
Giri