Google Translation API: Translate on server side using PHP

Hi Guys,

As you know, there is google translate ajax api which can be used on client side translation using it's javascript interface. But how do we do translation on server side languages such as PHP, Java, ASP.NET or Rails. There is a task for us to translate multiple records on the database into 6 different languages as cron job. Similar problems may face you. So here is the solutions that you can use for your servers-side google translations.

function translateTexts($src_texts = array(), $src_lang, $dest_lang){
  //setting language pair
  $lang_pair = $src_lang.'|'.$dest_lang;

  $src_texts_query = "";
  foreach ($src_texts as $src_text){
    $src_texts_query .= "&q=".urlencode($src_text);
  }

  $url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0".$src_texts_query."&langpair=".urlencode($lang_pair);

  // sendRequest
  // note how referer is set manually

  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com");
  $body = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

  // now, process the JSON string
  $json = json_decode($body, true);

  if ($json['responseStatus'] != 200){
    return false;
  }


  $results = $json['responseData'];
  
  $return_array = array();
  
  foreach ($results as $result){
    if ($result['responseStatus'] == 200){
      $return_array[] = $result['responseData']['translatedText'];
    } else {
      $return_array[] = false;
    }
  }
  
  //return translated text
  return $return_array;
}


// translate multiple texts
print_r(translateText(array('hello world', 'italian'), 'en', 'it'));

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