I am just starting to learn the Google Translate API and am trying to figure out how to get it set up properly.
First I went to https://console.developers.google.com where I set up billing, created a project, went into 'Credentials' and generated an API key.
I then went to Command Prompt and followed the steps to install via composer as described here. I had to use composer require google/cloud because composer require google/cloud-translation gave an error.
This installed fine and I can now see the directory C:\wamp64\www\myproject\vendor\google\cloud\Translate.
I then tried to create a simple script like so:
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Google\Cloud\Translate\TranslateClient;
$translate = new TranslateClient([
'key' => '{my API key}'
]);
if(isset($_POST["string"])){
$string = $_POST["string"];
$result = $translate->translate($string, [
'target' => 'fr'
]);
echo $result['text'] . "\n";
}
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form action="test_translate.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="string">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
But I get the following error messages:
( ! ) Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Google\Cloud\Core\Exception\ServiceException' with message 'cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)' in C:\wamp64\www\Lifting365\vendor\google\cloud\Core\src\RequestWrapper.php on line 263
( ! ) Google\Cloud\Core\Exception\ServiceException: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) in C:\wamp64\www\Lifting365\vendor\google\cloud\Core\src\RequestWrapper.php on line 263
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0007 242936 {main}( ) ...\test_translate.php:0
2 0.0489 1920632 Google\Cloud\Translate\TranslateClient->translate( ) ...\test_translate.php:13
3 0.0489 1921032 Google\Cloud\Translate\TranslateClient->translateBatch( ) ...\TranslateClient.php:181
4 0.0489 1921536 Google\Cloud\Translate\Connection\Rest->listTranslations( ) ...\TranslateClient.php:246
5 0.0489 1921848 Google\Cloud\Translate\Connection\Rest->send( ) ...\Rest.php:78
6 0.1728 2338192 Google\Cloud\Core\RequestWrapper->send( ) ...\RestTrait.php:96
I'm new to learning this so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right or if I'm missing something.
So I knew it was something glaringly obvious....
The error stated: SSL certificate problem.
And my directory was: C:\wamp64\www\myproject
I have an Alpha version of my site on WAMP, which doesn't have an SSL certificate, and then a Beta version and a live version, which both do have certificates.
Google requires an SSL cert, so the script works in my beta subdirectory but not locally on WAMP.