Translate array with google translator - php

Question

I use below PHP code in Laravel to translate one sentence or paragraph from one input field:
$apiKey = env('GOOGLE_TRANSLATOR_API');
$url = env('GOOGLE_TRANSLATOR_LINK') . $apiKey . '&q=' . rawurlencode($name) . '&target='.$language;
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($handle);
$responseDecoded = json_decode($response, true);
return $responseDecoded['data']['translations'][0]['translatedText'];
and it works perfectly fine.
But now I have two input fields (name and description) and I want to translate both of those fields using one API call and show the results individually.
EDIT
I have tried to use array in the API request as below:
$apiKey = env('GOOGLE_TRANSLATOR_API');
$url = env('GOOGLE_TRANSLATOR_LINK') . $apiKey . '&q=' . array('sentence one', 'sentence two) . '&target='.$language;
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($handle);
$responseDecoded = json_decode($response, true);
return $responseDecoded['data']['translations'][0]['translatedText'];
But I get Array to string conversion error.

Answer 1

1Installing the Basic Client Libraries Client library PHP
composer require google/cloud-translate
and in your code
use Google\Cloud\Translate\V3\TranslationServiceClient;
$translationServiceClient = new TranslationServiceClient();
/** Uncomment and populate these variables in your code */
// $text = 'Hello, world!';
// $textTwo = 'My name is John':
// $targetLanguage = 'fr'; // your lang
// $projectId = '[Google Cloud Project ID]';
$contents = [$text, $textTwo];
$formattedParent = $translationServiceClient->locationName($projectId, 'global');
try {
$response = $translationServiceClient->translateText(
$contents,
$targetLanguage,
$formattedParent
);
// Display the translation for each input text provided
foreach ($response->getTranslations() as $translation) {
printf('Translated text: %s' . PHP_EOL, $translation->getTranslatedText());
}
} finally {
$translationServiceClient->close();
}
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