translate a PHP $string using google translator API
- by Toni Michel Caubet
hey there!
been google'ing for a while how is the best way to translate with google translator in PHP, found very different ways converting URLS, or using Js but i want to do it only with php (or with a very simple solution JS/JQUery)
example:
//hopefully with $from_lan and $to_lan being like 'en','de', .. or similar
function translate($from_lan, $to_lan, $text){
// do
return $translated_text;
}
can you give me a clue? or maybe you already have this function..
my intention it's to use it only for the languages i have not already defined (or keys i haven't defined), that's why i wan it so simple, will be only temporal..
EDIT
thanks for your replies we are now trying this soulutions:
function auto_translate($from_lan, $to_lan, $text){
// do
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=' . urlencode($text) . '&langpair=' . $from_lan . '|' . $to_lan));
$translated_text = $json->responseData->translatedText;
return $translated_text;
}
(there was a extra 'g' on variables for lang... anyway)
it returns: works now :)
i don't really understand much the function, so any idea why is not acepting the object? (now i do)
OR:
unction auto_translate($from_lan, $to_lan, $text){
// do
// $json = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=' . urlencode($text) . '&langpair=' . $from_lan . '|' . $to_lan));
// $translated_text = $json['responseData']['translatedText'];
error_reporting(1);
require_once('GTranslate.php');
try{
$gt = new Gtranslate();
$translated_text = $gt-english_to_german($text);
} catch (GTranslateException $ge)
{
$translated_text= $ge->getMessage();
}
return $translated_text;
}
And this one looks great but it doesn't even gives me an error, the page won't load (error_report(1) :S)
thanks in advance!
