automatic change text into other language + google translator - php

Question

In my PHP application there a new functionality I have to develop that is when user fill sign in form(html),whatever he/she put in "Name" field other two fileds i.e. "name in traditional Chinese" and "name in Chinese" should automatically filled.
I want to know is it possible with google translator? if yes then please share with me code or example.

Answer 1

Assuming that you want the translations perfomed on the server side (PHP) you can use file_get_contents to fetch data from Google Translate API. Then you need to parse the response and get translated text. You need to get API KEY to access the Translate service.
<?php
$string = 'Hello World';
$source_lang = 'en';
$target_lang = 'zh-CN'
header ( "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8" );
$data = file_get_contents ( 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&q='.urlencode($string).'&source='.$source_lang.'&target='.$target_lang );
$data = json_decode ( $data );
$translated = $data->data->translations->[0]->translatedText;
echo $translated;
?>
Server responses are JSON objects with that structure:
{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": "Hallo Welt",
"detectedSourceLanguage": "en"
}
]
}
}
More info about basic concept is avaliable on:
http://baris.aydinoglu.info/coding/google-translate-api-in-php.
Documentation of Google Translate API queries:
http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/v2/using_rest.html