1) The plugin doesn’t automatically provide translation – you have to fill it in yourself. However, there is a service you can use to get your translations:
With qTranslate 2.3, a new feature called “qTranslate Services” have been added. So what does it do?
Well, with qTranslate Services, qTranslate can finally do what the name suggest: Translations. Translation with qTranslate Services is as easy as two mouse clicks. Simply enable it under “Settings” on “Language Management”.
So what’s the difference between qTranslate Services and other translation plugins? Well, qT not only supports free machine translation, but also professional human translation! The Services are provided by Web-Translations, where Ford, MTV and many other companies get their translations from.
Feel free to test the service and report any problems here.
2) No, no need to do php coding to ‘make it work’
Update
Apparently the original machine translation option is no longer available. Here are two options from the support forum to add google translate output when a manual translation is not available. One involves editing php code, the other css and javascript.