I just started using the BING translate API to do a small volume of translations into most of their supported languages and that works pretty well.
There is a GitHub project that has simple PHP code for making the API call to Microsoft. You mostly just need the API key, and it can be customized pretty easily.
// NOTE: Be sure to uncomment the following line in your php.ini file.
// ;extension=php_openssl.dll
// **********************************************
// *** Update or verify the following values. ***
// **********************************************
// Replace the subscriptionKey string value with your valid subscription key.
$key = 'ENTER KEY HERE';
$host = "https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com";
$path = "/translate?api-version=3.0";
// Translate to German and Italian.
$params = "&to=de&to=it";
$text = "Hello, world!";
if (!function_exists('com_create_guid')) {
function com_create_guid() {
return sprintf( '%04x%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x%04x%04x',
mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ),
mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ),
mt_rand( 0, 0x0fff ) | 0x4000,
mt_rand( 0, 0x3fff ) | 0x8000,
mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff ), mt_rand( 0, 0xffff )
);
}
}
function Translate ($host, $path, $key, $params, $content) {
$headers = "Content-type: application/json\r\n" .
"Content-length: " . strlen($content) . "\r\n" .
"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $key\r\n" .
"X-ClientTraceId: " . com_create_guid() . "\r\n";
// NOTE: Use the key 'http' even if you are making an HTTPS request. See:
// http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php
$options = array (
'http' => array (
'header' => $headers,
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $content
)
);
$context = stream_context_create ($options);
$result = file_get_contents ($host . $path . $params, false, $context);
return $result;
}
$requestBody = array (
array (
'Text' => $text,
),
);
$content = json_encode($requestBody);
$result = Translate ($host, $path, $key, $params, $content);
// Note: We convert result, which is JSON, to and from an object so we can pretty-print it.
// We want to avoid escaping any Unicode characters that result contains. See:
// http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
$json = json_encode(json_decode($result), JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
echo $json;
I also have a Google Cloud account and am looking for something similar for a few languages that Google supports that BING does not. For v2, it is not too hard to call Google to make the return the translations.
I found this GitHub project that seems to work for v2 API calls with an API key, but unfortunately I think that is a fee-for-service program now ?
That also seems to work pretty well if you have an API key. If you are using v3, they apparently updated the libraries and support. You can make a CURL call from the command line and they have some of that documented on their website, but I am looking for a way to make the call using a PHP file.
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Google\Cloud\Translate\TranslateClient;
$translate = new TranslateClient([
'key' => 'APIKEY'
]);
// Translate text from english to french.
$result = $translate->translate('Hello world!', [
'target' => 'fr'
]);
echo $result['text'] . "\n";
// Detect the language of a string.
$result = $translate->detectLanguage('Greetings from Michigan!');
echo $result['languageCode'] . "\n";
// Get the languages supported for translation specifically for your target language.
$languages = $translate->localizedLanguages([
'target' => 'en'
]);
foreach ($languages as $language) {
echo $language['name'] . "\n";
echo $language['code'] . "\n";
}
// Get all languages supported for translation.
$languages = $translate->languages();
foreach ($languages as $language) {
echo $language . "\n";
}
Not sure that is even possible, but the best I can come up with is something like this based upon the command line CURL, but the authentication is wrong and fails. I do have the .json file for my Project/Service credentials. The ${PROJECT_ID} I presume is the project ID for the account, and Bearer $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) I am not sure about. There are some instructions about how to obtain that through the CLI, but is there a way to get that via a PHP file ? Like I say, the v2 version works fine.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://translation.googleapis.com/v3beta1/projects/${PROJECT_ID}/locations/global:detectLanguage");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\n mimeType: 'text/plain',\n content: 'Omnia Gallia est divisa in tres partes'\n}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token)';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
echo $result;
}
curl_close ($ch);
There might be clues here, but it talks about exporting the path for the credentials file and running PHP scripts from the command line instead of from a server.
This probably won't evaluate:
'Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token)'
It's rather:
// $cmd = 'gcloud auth application-default login';
$cmd = 'gcloud auth application-default print-access-token';
$token = shell_exec($cmd);
besides it probably should be a service account.
It seems google/cloud replaces google/cloud-translate. For Translate, you could edit the translate-v2.json or add translate-v3beta1.json; but v3beta1 has a whole other REST API than v2 ...